{"id":8330,"date":"2026-06-13T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:58:51","slug":"view-june-2026-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/view-june-2026-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"View June 2026 sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Date<\/th>Species<\/th>Location<\/th>Observer<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
30th<\/td>1 Black Guillemot<\/td>Rothesay Harbour<\/td>Alan Hobson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>2 Hooded Crows<\/td>Shalunt<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29th<\/td>Swifts nesting<\/td>43 Mount Stuart Rd<\/td>Max Sharp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>20+ Manx Shearwaters, 16 Red-breasted Mergansers, 4 Rock Pipits, 3 Shelduck and 2 Common Sandpipers<\/td>south end of Ettrick Bay<\/td>Alan Hobson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>2 Black Guillemots<\/td>Rothesay harbour<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28th<\/td>a Knot, 3 Sandwich Terns, 3 Common Sandpipers, a Wigeon and 3 Ringed Plovers<\/td>Ascog<\/td>Alan Hobson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26th<\/td>Oystercatcher sitting on 2 eggs<\/td>Glecknabae<\/td>Mike Dodds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Little Grebe<\/td>Kirk Dam<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25th<\/td>10+ adult Common Sandpipers<\/td>between Ettrick Tearoom and Scarrel shore<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>pair of Oystercatchers with 2 chicks<\/td>Scarrel shore<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>pair of Oystercatchers with 2 chicks<\/td>Port Bannatyne<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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24th<\/td>pair of Great Crested Grebes, Whooper Swan, 1 Little Grebe, 15 Mallard and a flock of Sand Martins<\/td>Loch Quien<\/td>Ian Hopkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Sandwich Tern and a pair of Red-breasted Mergansers<\/td>Scalpsie Bay<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>4 Red-breasted Mergansers<\/td>Craigmore<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21st<\/td>Osprey with at least 2 chicks<\/td>nest 4<\/td>Ian Hopkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>10 Swifts<\/td>Mount Pleasant Rd<\/td>Alison Clark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20th<\/td>3 pairs of Ringed Plovers, each with 2 chicks and an Oystercatcher pair with 2 chicks<\/td>Craigmore<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>pair of Swifts<\/td>Russel Street<\/td>Paul Ashton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19th<\/td>pair of Lapwings with at least 1 chick, Moorhen with 5 chicks and a Great Crested Grebe. Mute Swans with 4 visible cygnets<\/td>Greenan Loch<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18th<\/td>Swallows with 4 eggs<\/td>nest in Kirk Dam hide<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>6 Swifts<\/td>over Kirk Dam<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Red-breasted Merganser<\/td>childrens corner<\/td>Margaret Macdonald<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17th<\/td>4 Swifts<\/td>along Mount Stuart Rd<\/td>Malcolm Newdick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>5 Kestrel chicks<\/td>location withheld<\/td>John Williams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16th<\/td>8 adult Black Guillemots<\/td>Rothesay harbour<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>2 Black Guillemot chicks<\/td>in 2 of the outpipes, Rothesay harbour<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15th<\/td>Common Sandpipers nest with 4 eggs<\/td>near Stuck Cottage<\/td>Malcolm Newdick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11th<\/td>Oystercatcher and chick<\/td>Port Bannatyne marina<\/td>Anne Charnock<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers<\/td>Kingarth Memorial<\/td>Margaret Macdonald<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10th<\/td>Sand Martins, House Martins and Swallows<\/td>around the Moat<\/td>Paul Power<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>single Swift<\/td>around the Moat<\/td>Mike Dodds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>large number of Cormorants<\/td>Rothesay Bay<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9th<\/td>Little Egret<\/td>Kilchattan Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>2 Ospreys<\/td>nest 4<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8th<\/td>2 Ringed Plover chicks able to fly from 1 pair, 2 smaller chicks from the second pair<\/td>right of Craigmore pier<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Ospreys now feeding chicks(possibly 2)<\/td>nest 4<\/td>John Williams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>3 juvenile Goosanders and Eiders with chicks, family of Blackcaps<\/td>Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Sand Martin colony of c70 nestholes<\/td>Glenmore<\/td>Ian Hopkins and Alan Gilmour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6th<\/td>3 Common Sandpiper chicks<\/td>Ettrick to Drumachloy shore<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4th<\/td>Cuckoo calling<\/td>Edinbeg Hill<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3rd<\/td>Mute Swans with all 6 hatched eggs<\/td>Greenan Loch<\/td>Tom McMillan, Eskechraggan Farm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2nd<\/td>4 male Eiders and 1 female<\/td>in front of Rothesay pier<\/td>Paul McTaggart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>pair of Black Guillemots<\/td>displaying at the pier<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Oystercatchers<\/td>nesting in a fish box on the pier<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>3 Ringed Plover chicks<\/td>right of Craigmore pier<\/td>Malcolm Newdick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Oystercatchers with 3 chicks<\/td>right of Craigmore pier<\/td>Max Sharp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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