g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Baltic Gull in Stockholm - as smart as I was hoping they would be. 090
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Dutch-ringed 1cy Med Gull at Meikle Craigs on 15/8/26. First sighting since it was ringed in June in Flevoland. 080
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/08/20262468, 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). 0142
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Sounds like a bit of influx from there. I do find it interesting to speculate on why these birds move north, and what it is about East Wemyss, Meikle Craigs and Port Seton that makes them attract Meds in numbers. 110
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Another Norfolk-ringed Med at Meikle Craigs this evening. This one a 2cy bird which spent its first winter in Portugal. 120
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Two new (!) ringed Med Gulls at Meikle Craigs this evening - both juveniles, German yellow A7AC, and Norfolk yellow 2468 (first sighting since ringing in June). 120
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Incredible numbers! My record at Meikle Craigs is 59. It will be interesting to see if this bird makes it back across to East Wemyss which it did in 2023, 2024 and 2025. 111
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Very envious of all these east coast darvics! 9 years of checking for rings at the west coast hotspot at Meikle Craigs has given me just three (two English and one German). The latter was there today, interestingly just two weeks after it was seen at Formby Point, so a west coast movement this year 130
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Norwegian Black-headed Gull green JMU1 at Strathclyde CP this afternoon. Ringed just 12 days ago near Stavanger. 0130
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Juvenile Wheatear near Crawford this afternoon #birdingscotland 0140
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Collector's item Spanish-ringed Common Gull at Daer reservoir, South Lanarkshire in April. Ringed on its winter holidays near Cádiz in 2024 #birdingscotland 0170
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026www.justgiving.com/page/nick-ho...justgiving.comNick's fundraiser for Glasgow South West FoodbankHelp Nick Hopkins raise money to support Glasgow South West Foodbank 020
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026A tree full of Maghreb Magpies by the Oued Souss #birdingmorocco #moroccobirds 040
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Northern Bald Ibis on the coast in between the ring reading. 020
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Dutch-ringed Spoonbill on the Oued Souss. First sighting since ringing at Markiezaat in 2021. 050
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026English LBBG at Imi Ouaddar beach - a first sighting since it was ringed as an adult near Scarborough in June 2016. 040
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026German LBBG at Anza beach. Ringed in 2015 on Föhr in the North Frisian islands, the last sighting was on nearby Amrum in 2017. 030
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026A 25 year-old Spanish Audouin's Gull at Aghroud. Ringed at Tarragona in June 2001, with only three sightings since then, all in Morocco. 040
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Welsh-ringed LBBG blue F:208 (Flatholm) at Anza beach. 030
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Isle of May ringed LBBG yellow T:3H6 at Anza beach (the only Scottish bird of the trip). 030
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/03/2026A 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. 020
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026One of two Spanish Imperial Eagles giving great views near Castro Verde last week #birdingportugal 020
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I'm glad to see you're blogging again - I've really enjoyed your posts over the years. 120
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Tundra Bean Geese coming into land near Portencross last weekend #birdingscotland 0110
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/01/2026First winter Herring Gull at Richmond Park, Glasgow on Hogmanay - ringed as a chick on Canna in July. #clydebirding 0100
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Glasgow's now regular wintering Ring-necked Duck, today in Victoria Park #clydebirding. Happy New Year to all when it comes. 0231
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 27/12/2025A selection of ringed Tree Sparrows from the Flenders Tree Sparrow project in Clarkston #clydebirding 0130
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Redshank at Budle Bay, Northumberland on 2/10/25, ringed at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire on 8/3/25. 080
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Dutch-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 060
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025A 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 090
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Kittiwake b-XCZ at Troon harbour last weekend. Ringed on Colonsay as an adult in June 2021 and last seen there in 2022 #ringreading 060
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Maybe a Dutch bird? The scheme at reference 2269B on the International Wader Study Group's projects register spreadsheet seems to fit - click the link to it from here www.waderstudygroup.org/projects/col...waderstudygroup.orgInternational Wader Study Group | » The Register 110
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Icelandic-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 0100
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025German-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 0190
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Sandwich 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 090
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025A nudge to ringers to reply to ring-readers would be welcome too - I've still to hear back on a ringed Sandwich Tern I reported two years ago! 020
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I also got a few rings read including this Greylag at Blönduós, which has been seen in Orkney since being ringed in #iceland in 2024. 040
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Blue Fulmar at Sandgerði #iceland Always wanted to see one of these, fortunately there was one among the hundreds and hundreds of Fulmars present. 070
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Harlequin with ducklings on the Laxá near Mývatn #iceland 030
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Redpoll #iceland - first time seeing these dark Icelandic birds. 030
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Another Red-necked Phalarope, this one on Bakkatjörn, Seltjarnarnes #iceland 050
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Great Northern Diver, Stakhólstjörn, Mývatn #iceland 040
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Brünnich’s Guillemots above the Arctic Circle on Grímsey #iceland 030
