Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of two very confiding Shorelark at The Leas, South Shields today #NEbirding #UKbirds 0120
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not often I self-find something a bit rarer - Lapland Bunting in the dunes on Holy Island just now #rarebirdalert 2110
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Least Bittern, Jocelyn Nungaray wildlife refuge, Texas 030
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Visited the incredible Bolivar Flats seabird sanctuary in Texas over the weekend and it didn’t disappoint. 130
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just the usual suspects around Barns Ness, although the Merlin App did its best to wind me up (surely a hallucination, even if it somehow managed to pick the exact spot where RFB have been found in recent years) #BirdingScotland 141
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Leucistic Ringed Plover (I presume?) with the Dunlin and plover flock at Whitesands beach #BirdingScotland 0120
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Little Stint at Whitesands beach this evening #BirdingScotland 0180
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Smart Curlew Sandpiper (aren’t they all?) at Whitesands beach this evening, with a Little Stint and Short-eared Owl over the grass just behind #BirdingScotland 0120
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Redstart at Barns Ness wire dump yesterday. Lots of other migrants around including Icterine Warbler, Wood Warbler and numerous Pied Flycatchers #BirdingScotland 090
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The almost-mythical Lurg Mhor seen from Bidean a Choire Sheasgaich this weekend. Well worth the 40 km round trip, much assisted by cycling into Loch Calavie #Munros 020
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Summit of Maoile Lunndaidh, NE Highlands. Remote and beautiful place, not another soul on the mountain apart from a dozen Ptarmigan #Munros 020
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Great Northern Diver at Poolewe after 10 Black-throated and 2 Red-throated Divers at Gairloch (and maybe a Pacific Diver to complete the set - a bit too distant to be 100% sure of ID ☹️). Nice to see all these birds in their summer finery #BirdingScotland 170
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Guillemots & Razorbills creating bait balls that attract Minke Whales, North Minch 020
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Storm Petrels and Great Skuas aplenty out in the North Minch. Pre-dawn drive to Gairloch was rewarded with 2 Tawny and 1 Barn Owl, a pine marten and a pair of White-tailed Eagles over the harbour #BirdingScotland 030
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Spotted Flycatchers, Aviemore #BirdingScotland 070
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Always a good day when you bump into a Ptarmigan. This one near the summit of Cona’Mheall at 900 metres. Plenty of Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper and Greenshank around too #BirdingScotland 0193
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Ruddy Shelduck at Musselburgh scrapes this morning (other Shelducks are available). Thanks @ijandrews.bsky.social #BirdingScoland 020
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Quail singing in pea field north of Ware Road, Tyninghame today #BirdingScotland 0111
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Arctic Tern, Long Nanny, Northumberland #SuperSeabirdSunday 091
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 27/04/2026A few from a walk along Glencorse and Loganlea in the Pentlands sunshine this weekend: Wheatear, Meadow Pipit, Common Sandpiper, Dipper #BirdingScotland 070
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Iberian Chiffchaff singing at Pease Dean SWT this afternoon. Spent a happy hour waiting for it to pose for a photo. Thanks to the finder #BirdingScotland 2140
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Red-bellied Woodpecker, Brazos Bend State Park #TexasBirding 010
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 18/04/2026And a few more from Jocelyn Nungaray: Solitary Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper & Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Long-billed Dowitcher 031
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Side benefits of a work trip to Houston - Texas birding in April is amazing. Least Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Killdeer and Semipalmated Sandpiper among the waders at Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge 031
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 05/04/2026At least 5 Wheatear at the north end of Thorntonloch beach (and a few Kittiwake at Dunbar harbour) #BirdingScotland 0151
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Tree Sparrow between some very cold squally showers at Mortonhall this afternoon. Glad I took the camera despite the unpromising weather #BirdingScotland 0130
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 29/03/2026A few birds from late afternoon at Kinneil, upper Forth, yesterday. Greenshank, Black Tailed Godwit and c.20 Scaup #BirdingScotland 081
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Vixen at Kinneil lagoon watching the sunset over Grangemouth #Foxoftheday 032
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Not going to win any photo prizes for these heavy crops of Zitting Cisticola at Walberswick on March 22nd. Brief views before it flew across the channel and disappeared into the reeds again #UKBirding 060
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Suffolk always a wonderful birding place. Med Gull and Bittern (Minsmere), Dartford Warbler, Marsh Tit (Santon Downham) #UKBirding 060
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Hume’s Warbler in Lowestoft one of many highlights of a few days in Suffolk and Norfolk #UKBirding 070
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Stone Curlew on a Norfolk pig farm. They seem to get on just fine 010
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 11/03/2026A few more pics of the Barns Ness Firecrest (ironically I lugged my camera to London last week specifically to try to photograph the species, with not so much as glimpse) #BirdingScotland 090
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Firecrest flitting around at Barns Nest #BirdingScotland 1301
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Great Crested Grebe at RSPB Rainham Marshes on a dreich afternoon 010
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Russian White-fronted Geese in flight at Stoneypath yesterday (with a single Greylag for scale comparison) #BirdingScotland 070
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Perhaps not one for the purists, but these Mandarin Ducks at Pressmennan are beautiful all the same #BirdingScotland 071
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Still 40+ Russian White Fronted Geese at Stoneypath Farm, East Lothian, moving between the flooded field and hillside to the North #BirdingScotland 090
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Partially leucastic (I presume) Lesser Redpoll in my Edinburgh garden #BirdingScotland 1110
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Slightly closer views of the 8 Tundra Bean Geese at Hedderwick this morning #BirdingScotland 050
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Heavy crop of Shorelark at JMCP this morning #BirdingScotland 2120
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 21/02/20268 Tundra Bean Geese still in field east of Foxlake this morning #BirdingScotland 050
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 14/02/2026White-billed Diver off Dunbar East Beach this afternoon, plus one of a handful of Purple Sandpipers rather closer on #BirdingScotland 0140
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Cold weather bringing small flocks of Redpolls and Siskins into my south Edinburgh garden. At least 4 Blackcap (2m, 2f) around too. #BirdingScotland 060
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Ring-necked Duck at Queens Park Glasgow this morning 1131
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Mobile flock of 13 Snow Buntings at east end of Yellowcraig beach #BirdingScotland 0160
Andy Latham @andrewlathameac.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Went looking for Jack Snipe around some Midlothian SuDS ponds - no joy (maybe a bit optimistic without a thermal imager!). But this Grey Wagtail was a fine consolation prize 160
