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Birding/ring reading in Glasgow and beyond

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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Baltic Gull in Stockholm - as smart as I was hoping they would be.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dutch-ringed 1cy Med Gull at Meikle Craigs on 15/8/26. First sighting since it was ringed in June in Flevoland.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2468, Med Gulls I appreciate. One of 10 colour-ringed Med Gulls at Meikle Craigs, Troon last night, continuing a remarkable run this summer. Interestingly, all birds have been from two projects (Norfolk and Leipzig).
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Norwegian Black-headed Gull green JMU1 at Strathclyde CP this afternoon. Ringed just 12 days ago near Stavanger.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Juvenile Wheatear near Crawford this afternoon #birdingscotland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Collector's item Spanish-ringed Common Gull at Daer reservoir, South Lanarkshire in April. Ringed on its winter holidays near Cádiz in 2024 #birdingscotland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A tree full of Maghreb Magpies by the Oued Souss #birdingmorocco #moroccobirds
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Northern Bald Ibis on the coast in between the ring reading.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Dutch-ringed Spoonbill on the Oued Souss. First sighting since ringing at Markiezaat in 2021.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
English LBBG at Imi Ouaddar beach - a first sighting since it was ringed as an adult near Scarborough in June 2016.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
German LBBG at Anza beach. Ringed in 2015 on Föhr in the North Frisian islands, the last sighting was on nearby Amrum in 2017.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A 25 year-old Spanish Audouin's Gull at Aghroud. Ringed at Tarragona in June 2001, with only three sightings since then, all in Morocco.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Welsh-ringed LBBG blue F:208 (Flatholm) at Anza beach.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Isle of May ringed LBBG yellow T:3H6 at Anza beach (the only Scottish bird of the trip).
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A few highlights from a ring reading trip to Morocco in November: Guernsey-ringed LBBG, having lost its darvic, ringed as an adult in May 2012, seen at Anza beach.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
One of two Spanish Imperial Eagles giving great views near Castro Verde last week #birdingportugal
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Tundra Bean Geese coming into land near Portencross last weekend #birdingscotland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
First winter Herring Gull at Richmond Park, Glasgow on Hogmanay - ringed as a chick on Canna in July. #clydebirding
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Glasgow's now regular wintering Ring-necked Duck, today in Victoria Park #clydebirding. Happy New Year to all when it comes.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A selection of ringed Tree Sparrows from the Flenders Tree Sparrow project in Clarkston #clydebirding
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
@lothianrecorder.bsky.social White 32A4.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Redshank at Budle Bay, Northumberland on 2/10/25, ringed at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire on 8/3/25.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Dutch-ringed Sandwich Tern r-H97 at Meikle Craigs, Troon today. Ringed on Slijkplaat, Haringvliet in May 2024, and seen on the Platier d'Oye reserve, northern France in July 2024. #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A second ringed Kittiwake at Troon harbour last weekend, this one ringed on Inchkeith as an adult in 2009. Likely to have crossed overland from the Forth to the Clyde on its way to winter in the north Atlantic #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Kittiwake b-XCZ at Troon harbour last weekend. Ringed on Colonsay as an adult in June 2021 and last seen there in 2022 #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Icelandic-ringed Oystercatcher at Barassie, Troon this morning. Ringed in Önundarfjörður in the West Fjords in 2014, this is my first sighting of this one since 2020 at the same location #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
German-ringed Med Gull at Meikle Craigs, Troon this morning. Ringed in Leipzig in June 2022, my first sighting of it since 2023. A bird that also turns up at West Wemyss. One of 41 Meds present, but the only colour ringed bird #ringreading
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Sandwich Tern r-N57 at Meikle Craigs, Troon last week. Ringed in Senegal in March 2023, sightings since then in the Netherlands, northern France and the Bann estuary #birdingscotland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I also got a few rings read including this Greylag at Blönduós, which has been seen in Orkney since being ringed in #iceland in 2024.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Blue Fulmar at Sandgerði #iceland Always wanted to see one of these, fortunately there was one among the hundreds and hundreds of Fulmars present.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Harlequin with ducklings on the Laxá near Mývatn #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Redpoll #iceland - first time seeing these dark Icelandic birds.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Another Red-necked Phalarope, this one on Bakkatjörn, Seltjarnarnes #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Great Northern Diver, Stakhólstjörn, Mývatn #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Humpback whale in Skjálfandi bay #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Whimbrel and Ptarmigans around Akureyri #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Brünnich’s Guillemots above the Arctic Circle on Grímsey #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Red-throated Diver at Siglufjörður, #iceland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Red-necked Phalaropes (two of at least 40) on Grímsey, #iceland incredibly tame.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A few from a trip to #Iceland, adult and juvenile Snow Buntings on Grímsey.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Slimbridge Greylags currently starting to appear at Strathclyde Loch and Hogganfield for their annual moult migration, among them, unusually, this one ringed at Windermere @kanebrides.bsky.social #clydebirding
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Decent numbers of Common Gulls hatched with a number of adults still on nests at a site in South Lanarkshire yesterday #clydebirding
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A check of South Lanarkshire gull colonies yesterday came up with two birds ringed in 2020 as chicks in an apparently now abandoned colony in the Moorfoots. First sighting away from there of 2BTB and first sighting of 2XHT since a report in Brittany in 2022.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Oystercatcher at Musselburgh New Lagoons on 18/4/25. Ringed in Glen Clova in June 2023 #birdinglothian @lothianrecorder.bsky.social
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A non-birding holiday to beautiful Lithuania still provided some good birds like this Wood Sandpiper in Kaunas, and nice to see a young Fieldfare being fed by a parent.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder to myself of what beautiful birds Stock Doves are, with this pair on farmland near Clarkston yesterday.
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Finnish-ringed BHG at Castle Semple Loch today. My first sighting of this one for two winters. Ringed as a chick in 2009 in Kanta-Häme region, it's now in its 17th calendar year #clydebirding
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#birdingscotland
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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Iceland Gull in Troon harbour this morning.
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