Trip reports
 | Sunday, 1 November 2009 What You Missed: January - June 2009 Mid May ....... our coast saw a major fall of rare migrants ... More... |
 | Wednesday, 22 July 2009 Outdoor meeting: FORFAR LOCH & LOCH OF KINNORDY there were numerous Mallards, many with families ranging from ducklings only a few days old to fully grown juveniles....Everybody had excellent views of a pair of Great Crested Grebes with three young, sometimes sitting on the back of one of the parents. More... |
 | Sunday, 5 July 2009 ....we were greeted by the smell of hundreds of nesting birds; Gannet,Guillemot, Puffin, Razorbill, Fulmar and Kittiwake were all wheeling about the cliff colony...Then the call went up - minkie whale! More... |
 | Sunday, 14 June 2009 Outdoor Meeting:TAY REED BEDS AND VANE FARM As the Tay Ringing Group were working the beds, it gave us a rare opportunity to see Bearded Tits [or Reedlings] close up in the hand More... |
 | Tuesday, 9 June 2009 Outdoor Evening Meeting: NTS DRUM CASTLE .... an enjoyable walk through delightful mixed, mainly deciduous, woodland... More... |
 | Sunday, 31 May 2009 Outdoor Meeting: NTS LEITH HALL ...a number of young and recently fledged birds about....proved to be a theme of the outing....a Tawny Owl...our best bird of the outing.. More... |
 | Thursday, 21 May 2009 ....eight members gathered on a lovely sunny morning on the esplanade at Arbroath.......the old Raven's nest had been taken over by a pair of Fulmars. They looked ridiculous perched on the top of this huge nest... More... |
 | Thursday, 30 April 2009 Outdoor Meeting: DINNET AND ENVIRONS ...a cry of 'Osprey' went up and everybody had super views of an Osprey carrying a large branch in its talons.......On the walk through Dinnet Oak Wood...Redstart - very good views ... More... |
 | Sunday, 26 April 2009 Outdoor Meeting:LUNAN BAY AND MONTROSE A lovely day in the sunshine and 62 or 65 species seen, depending on the list recorder! More... |
 | Tuesday, 7 April 2009 Indoor meeting:THE PANTANAL THE BIGGEST WETLAND IN THE WORLD Eric McCabe, a professional wildlife photographer, treated us to an account of a visit he and his wife made to Brazil where he began his trip with a visit to the Pantanal, the biggest wetland in the world More... |
 | Sunday, 15 March 2009 Outdoor Meeting: FINDHORN AND ROSEISLE FOREST ...a Pied Wagtail started our list....two Slavonian Grebes, one in winter plumage the other coming into summer plumage, swam close inshore.... More... |
 | Wednesday, 4 March 2009 Linnets and Yellowhammers flitted between the dyke and the ploughed field. A Pheasant, Rooks and Gulls were obvious, and a little patience also found Reed Bunting amongst the furrows , while the spring air trilled to fluttering Skylarks. More... |
 | Tuesday, 3 March 2009 Indoor Meeting: RSPB LOCH OF STRATHBEG RESERVE Dominic Funnell gave an account of the recent major transformation of the RSPB Loch of Strathbeg Reserve. More... |
 | Tuesday, 24 February 2009 Indoor Meeting: CORN BUNTINGS AND OTHER FARMLAND BIRDS OF EAST SCOTLAND Nineteen species are classed as farmland bird indicators........taken together, farmland birds have declined by 50% in the past twenty-five years.......the specialists have shown the greatest loss in numbers.Tree Sparrow numbers have declined by 90%. But they respond well to management and are now increasing...... More... |
 | Sunday, 22 February 2009 Outdoor Meeting:SCONE PALACE AND VANE FARM .....a total of 43 species seen or heard, including excellent views of Hawfinches More... |
 | Friday, 13 February 2009 Outdoor Meeting :STONEHAVEN AREA Lots of snow and ice underfoot but glorious weather that got better and better as the day advanced.....a total of 51 species was seen. More... |
 | Tuesday, 20 January 2009 Indoor Meeting: SPIRIT OF SHACKLETON Nick Picozzi, formerly an ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Banchory, fulfilled a long-held ambition when he embarked on a trip to the Antarctic. More... |
 | Tuesday, 13 January 2009 .....a very pleasant January outing although not many species. More... |
 | Friday, 2 January 2009 ....two pairs of Scaup hidden among the Eiders and some Sanderling scurrying along the beach. A little later two splendid Long-tailed Ducks were spotted on the sea. More... |
 | Tuesday, 16 December 2008 Indoor Meeting: CONSERVATION OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS Mark Young gave an account of some aspects of the conservation of butterflies and moths, referring to problems such as loss and change of habitat due to climate change......We were treated to a delightful account of lives and changing distributions of some butterflies and moths. More... |
 | Saturday, 22 November 2008 LOCH OF SKENE AND DUNECHT ESTATE .....on the Loch were Whooper and Mute Swan, Tufted Duck, Greylag and Pink footed Geese, Mallard, Coot, Goldeneye, Wigeon, Shoveler and Little Grebe.... followed by a walk through the lovely early winter setting of the tree-lined policies of the Dunecht House Estate... More... |
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 Indoor Meeting - "From the Cape to The Falls" Mark Caunt is a professional wildlife photographer who went to South Africa for a guided sightseeing trip ..... and amassed a list of over two hundred species.......We were delighted by the excellence of the slides that were witness to the Mark's photographic skills. More... |
Saturday, 1 November 2008 Our latest expedition took us for the first time to South America, for three weeks at the end of October and the beginning of November 2008. With hindsight, we should have learned Spanish...... More... |
 | Tuesday, 28 October 2008 Indoor Meeting: What's Not That Bird Jonathan Osborne of RSPB Scottish Headquarters in Edinburgh gave the inaugural talk of the season. Over the years he had collected many stories about birds being identified wrongly. More... |
 | Sunday, 12 October 2008 ......two to three hundred Golden Plovers on the foreshore... followed by the more attractive option of a sea cliff walk through the Seaton Cliffs Nature Reserve managed by the SWT..... and not only Common Scoters [the majority] but also significant numbers of Velvet Scoters and one Surf Scoter.... More... |
 | Friday, 19 September 2008 Autumn Trip to Skye: 19-22 September 2008 A lot of driving - but worth it for Twite, Crested Tit, Brent Geese, Black-throated and Red-throated Diver, Peregrine Falcon, Sea Eagle... and 14 Golden Eagles More... |
 | Tuesday, 9 September 2008 Kestrel and Stoat in the dunes, Martins and Swallows hunting all around, Arctic Skuas and Manx Shearwaters far out to sea .... More... |
 | Friday, 29 August 2008 Many hundreds of Curlew, eight Snipe, a family of Wheatears, Redshanks, Ruffs, Lapwings, Black-tailed Godwit and a Heron... More... |
 | Thursday, 17 July 2008 Hundreds of Redshank, Grey Plover in immaculate summer plumage, scruffy Mallards in eclipse, Osprey, Arctic & Great Skuas, and Manx and Sooty Shearwaters... More... |
 | Friday, 11 July 2008 Variety of birds at Longhaven, Strathbeg, Forvie More... |
 | Sunday, 6 July 2008 Wheatears, Whinchats, Peregrines More... |
Sunday, 22 June 2008 Rain!! More... |
Wednesday, 4 June 2008 Pipistrelle Bats More... |
 | Thursday, 22 May 2008 Blazing Gorse, Linnets, Herring Gull, Fulmar, Cormorant, Common, Arctic and Sandwich Terns, Turnstone, Sanderling, Red-breasted Merganser - and so many Ringed Plovers More... |
 | Sunday, 11 May 2008 Cuckoo, Swallows More... |
 | Sunday, 20 April 2008 Goldeneye, Dipper, First Willow Warbler More... |
Thursday, 17 April 2008 Imperial Eagles and Flamingoes More... |
 | Wednesday, 16 April 2008 Woodland Birds, Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Razorbill More... |
 | Tuesday, 25 March 2008 Red Troated Diver, Long Tailed Ducks, Bewick swan amongst Whoopers More... |
 | Sunday, 16 March 2008 MONTREATHMONT FOREST AND FORFAR LOCH Lesser Redpolls, Siskins , 3 Raptor species More... |
 | Sunday, 24 February 2008 Tay Reed Beds RSPB reserve, Foxes, Snipe, Scone palace, Hawfinch, Snowdrops More... |
| Monday, 11 February 2008 Sunshine. Strathbeg, New Tower Hide: ducks and geese, Bank Hide: Ermine Stoat, Carnbulg More... |
 | Thursday, 17 January 2008 Rain/Sleet, Feterresso, Cowie Harbour, Best bird?: Crossbills More... |
 | Wednesday, 2 January 2008 Bracing Weather! Redshanks, Knot, Oyster Catcher, Pale Bellied Brent Geese More... |
 | Sunday, 25 November 2007 Windy, Storm Petrel, Iceland Gull, Little Auks, Crimond Church Clock More... |
 | Monday, 12 November 2007 Cloud Formations, Little Auks flypast, Reed Buntings and Flocks of Yellow Hammerts More... |
 | Sunday, 7 October 2007 Nettles, House Sparrows, Grey Partridge,Kestrels More... |
| Tuesday, 11 September 2007 Fine weather, Arctic Skua, Red Throated Diver More... |
| Monday, 20 August 2007 Wind, Waders and Risso's Dolphins More... |
 | Sunday, 22 April 2007 St Cyrus Nature Reserve "Peregrinations" 22 April 2007 18 of us have a splendid day at this beautiful reserve. More... |