Managed to get my first Long-eared Owl calling this evening.
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Managed to get my first Long-eared Owl calling this evening.
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We’ve now two last minute spaces available on our early spring Short Break, staying at the Grant Arms Wildlife Hotel. Black Grouse at the leks, Divers returning to breeding lochs while wintering sea-ducks have yet to leave. www.highlandnature.co.uk/febmarch-202...
23.02.2026 22:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Significant arrival of Oystercatchers inland since yesterday evening. #birdingscotland #highlandbirds
22.02.2026 10:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting large movement of Pink-feet after dusk. High. Sounded like they were moving from the south, coming over the Cairngorms! #highlandbirds
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Think the Osprey was nonsense but there was definitely a Common Sand, photographed!
09.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Looking through the local gull flock by Gairloch yesterday I thought the Bonaparte's Gull looked different from the one I've been seeing.
After looking through a video that I took I can see that there are at least 2 of them!
Video grab attached
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Whooper swan and cygnet © LaurieCampbell.com
SOC Highland Branch are giving 15 Highland-based young birdwatchers the opportunity to attend the SOC/ @btoscotland.bsky.social Spring Conference on Sat 14 March '26 for just £10! Places are limited & will be allocated through an application process. Application criteria applies tinyurl.com/4cwscusk
20.01.2026 16:38 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1Claim of an Osprey yesterday near Inverness but remains unverified as yet. Photo begs a few questions. #highlandbirds #birdingscotland.
21.01.2026 10:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0First inland Oystercatcher of the year over Nethybridge this morning ! #highlandbirds #birdingscotland
21.01.2026 08:38 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Catching the sunrise.
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Saw my first inland Oystercatcher yesterday, Broxden roundabout Perth. Tentative signs of spring already. #birdingscotland.
18.01.2026 10:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Suspect so. Good to see as there was rumour it may have been shot.
17.01.2026 11:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wonder if it’s the relocating Argyll bird or Highland bird.
16.01.2026 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not been seen since the day some youths were observed shooting a Pink-foot in the same field ! 🤔
15.01.2026 11:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New Year’s Day officially the least birds recorded in the garden this winter. Even the PUC only picked up four species calling. Unheard of normally. Seem to be back today. Where’s that Bluetail !!!
02.01.2026 10:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exactly ! Highland has a record of White’s Thrush caught on a Wildcat trail cam in a random plantation, middle of winter !
02.01.2026 10:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s probably been through my garden 😆. Seems to be following the tit flocks around. Interesting it appeared roughly same time 1.30pm at the spot. Sunlight related perhaps as they shift around.
02.01.2026 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some years ago there used to be one regularly seen roosting in winter on a chimney pot in the middle of Avoch high street. They’re not daft !
02.01.2026 09:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Superb find James & thanks for the photos. You made a few local birders very happy today, I was lucky enough to get several views on the path before we lost it from view.
29.12.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks Andy, brilliant find at 12 years old !!!!
29.12.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Superb bird, and credit/thanks due to the finder. We’d like to use their name on the SOC sightings website if ok ? Could they contact me highlandrecorder@yahoo.com. Cheers.
29.12.2025 17:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Young friend of mine has just found this in the Nethybridge area of Highland this morning. No further details as yet #ukbirding
29.12.2025 11:37 — 👍 85 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 0
new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
20.12.2025 06:35 — 👍 8121 🔁 1511 💬 126 📌 177
The Snowy Owl has been declared Regionally Extinct in Sweden. For the first time in 20 years, the country has officially lost a bird species. - www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
#BirdingScotland #UKBirding
Attributed to a combination of climate change and disruption to the lemming cycle. A tragedy.
Inland Oystercatcher over last night! First or last ? app.birdweather.com/soundscapes/... #puc #birdingscotland
11.12.2025 07:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The new update to the BirdTrack app introduces several features aimed at helping us collect accurate bird data and alert you to those slip of the finger data entry errors #ukbirding
10.12.2025 19:43 — 👍 40 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 1My wife has been diagnosed with Lymes four times now, thankfully all caught in time as there was a rash, and she doesn’t even work outdoors. The doctors do seem more clued up than they used to be and less reluctant to give antibiotics.
10.12.2025 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting nocturnal movemebt of Pinks last night in poor weather where are they so desperate to get to app.birdweather.com/soundscapes/...
08.12.2025 10:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There were 16 seen at Bettyhill end of September, I wonder if these are the very same?
07.12.2025 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t think this is actually AI but when asked to confirm the location and provide more details the photographer has been very silent.
02.12.2025 07:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1