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20th<\/td>Kestrel<\/td>Dunagoil Farm<\/td>Paul McTaggart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19th<\/td>Red-throated Diver<\/td>Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>small flock of Turnstones and Ringed Plovers<\/td>Ardbeg Point<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15th<\/td>House Martins have fledged<\/td>near the park<\/td>Marion McCartney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13th<\/td>flock of Sandwich Terns and Gannets<\/td>Glenarch Cove, Craigmore<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Redshanks and Common Sandpipers<\/td>on the rocks at Glenarch Cove<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12th<\/td>6 Sandwich Terns<\/td>off Bogany Point<\/td>Melissa Peakman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9th<\/td>3 Bar-tailed Godwits<\/td>south end of Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>4 Goosanders, 1 Sanderling and 2 Dunlin among 16 Ringed Plovers<\/td>near Drumachloy burn<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>4 Manx Shearwaters<\/td>off Kildavanan point<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8th<\/td>small flock of Sandwich Terns<\/td>feeding off Rothesay Pier<\/td>Paul McTaggart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7th<\/td>5 Sandwich Terns<\/td>Rothesay Bay<\/td>Paul McTaggart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>mixed flock of c500 Greylag and Canada Geese<\/td>fields near Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>200+ Manx Shearwater<\/td>Ettrick Bay<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>5 Sandwich Terns<\/td>Ardbeg Point<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6th<\/td>male Hen Harrier<\/td>Scarrel<\/td>Paul Power<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5th<\/td>family party of Spotted Flycatchers<\/td>wee garden at Mount Stuart<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>c30 Curlew<\/td>St Ninian's Bay<\/td>Alison Clark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3rd<\/td>Ospreys fledged 2 chicks<\/td>nest 1<\/td>Ian Hopkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Ospreys fledged 2 chicks<\/td>nest 2<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>500+ Greylag and Canada Geese, 2 Sandwich Terns and their chick, a Goosander and 200+ Common Gulls<\/td>Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Raven<\/td>Glecknabae<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>100+ Manx Shearwaters<\/td>Western Kyles<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2nd<\/td>Spotted Flycatcher<\/td>Glecknabae<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1st<\/td>c50 Greylag Geese including a partial leucistic one<\/td>close to airfield<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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13th<\/td>flock of Sandwich Terns and Gannets<\/td>Glenarch Cove, Craigmore<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Redshanks and Common Sandpipers<\/td>on the rocks at Glenarch Cove<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12th<\/td>6 Sandwich Terns<\/td>off Bogany Point<\/td>Melissa Peakman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9th<\/td>3 Bar-tailed Godwits<\/td>south end of Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>4 Goosanders, 1 Sanderling and 2 Dunlin among 16 Ringed Plovers<\/td>near Drumachloy burn<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>4 Manx Shearwaters<\/td>off Kildavanan point<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8th<\/td>small flock of Sandwich Terns<\/td>feeding off Rothesay Pier<\/td>Paul McTaggart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7th<\/td>5 Sandwich Terns<\/td>Rothesay Bay<\/td>Paul McTaggart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>mixed flock of c500 Greylag and Canada Geese<\/td>fields near Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>200+ Manx Shearwater<\/td>Ettrick Bay<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>5 Sandwich Terns<\/td>Ardbeg Point<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6th<\/td>male Hen Harrier<\/td>Scarrel<\/td>Paul Power<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5th<\/td>family party of Spotted Flycatchers<\/td>wee garden at Mount Stuart<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>c30 Curlew<\/td>St Ninian's Bay<\/td>Alison Clark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3rd<\/td>Ospreys fledged 2 chicks<\/td>nest 1<\/td>Ian Hopkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Ospreys fledged 2 chicks<\/td>nest 2<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>500+ Greylag and Canada Geese, 2 Sandwich Terns and their chick, a Goosander and 200+ Common Gulls<\/td>Ettrick Bay<\/td>Ray Eddie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>Raven<\/td>Glecknabae<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>100+ Manx Shearwaters<\/td>Western Kyles<\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2nd<\/td>Spotted Flycatcher<\/td>Glecknabae<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1st<\/td>c50 Greylag Geese including a partial leucistic one<\/td>close to airfield<\/td>Paul Unwin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":8382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,83,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-143","category-latest-news","category-recent-sightings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}