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Hayden Fripp

@dorseth.bsky.social
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Retired Atco, birding in Burns Country.

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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A class find by J. McManus, American Pipit at Saltcoats Harbour #UKbirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The Pectoral Sandpiper I chanced upon at Mossblown. Found it again later at Fail Loch after a landing aircraft at EGPK flushed it #BirdingScotland #UKBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A summer plumaged beauty off Dunure, White-billed Diver #UKBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Ridiculous views of this juv Sabine's Gull at Troon today, all credit to @BedsGulls for finding #UkBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Scrub bashing around Greenan Castle turned up this showy 1st winter Barred Warbler, a first Ayrshire record #UkBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
One of four Leach's today, this one close past Greenan Shore, Ayr #UkBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Now at Turnberry Point, the Ayrshire Western Sandpiper. I'd never noticed the orange sensory pads on the feet soles before #UKbirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A striking leucistic juv. Sandwich Tern flying south past Dunure this morning #UKBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Rarity finders: Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire
The value of getting photos of a mystery bird proved crucial for Hayden Fripp, who stumbled upon a Western Sandpiper in Ayrshire in late May 2025.
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Western Sandpiper still present Maidens at dropped pin.
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Little Stint on Maidens Beach in mixed wader flock #UKbirding #BirdingScotland
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Saltcoats strikes again for Skuas, a Bonxie through at dawn then a Long-tailed called by J. McManus topped the morning @UKbirding @BirdingScotland
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Nightingales at dawn in Chequer's Wood, Canterbury. A female below assesses the male's singing prowess.#UKBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Bonaparte's Gull at Stevenston Point, Ayrshire, a superb find by D. Given #UKBirding#BirdingScotland
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My earliest Ayrshire Manxie record today, 5 loafing about off Dunure this afternoon #UKBirding #BirdingScotland
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The greens, golds and terracotta hues of a Jack Snipe, picked up with thermal imaging and left undisturbed at Doonfoot Lagoon #ukbirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This White-billed Diver flew south past my Dunure lookout this morning, possibly the same bird i last saw on 26th April returning? #ukbirding #BirdingScotland
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The fem/1st winter Black Redstart found at Maidens earlier by D Grant #UkBirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For people interested in wild birds in Ayrshire www.ayrshire-birding.org.uk #Ukbirding
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Finally found a Yellow-browed Warbler in Ayrshire, Bracken Bay.
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Little Stint on my Doonfoot patch.
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Hayden Fripp @dorseth.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Ross's Goose (finder D.Cree) associating wth several hundred Canadas and Pinkies, Fail Loch, Tarbolton.
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