A rare sight these days, cliff nesting House Martin’s! At least 29 nests Bilsdean Arches this morning, just one of two such sites in Lothian. 2 yellow wag on Scoughall beach yesterday. #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

Inchmickery today on a shag darvic spotting trip with the iconic Edinburgh skyline as a backdrop. 2 purple sand, 2 turnstone, 8 manxies & an arctic skua. Best was 4 flocks of commic terns (mainly arctics) migrating W, totalling 36 birds in a short period. #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

A brief look at the Red-foot as I passed on my way to do the waders, then saw it from the house later on taking it to me to 101. Sanderling 330, Dunlin 86, Ringed Plover 136, Knot 25, Greenshank 5, Med Gull 2 juvs. 2 swift over village earlier. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland

A nice addition to the Aberlady list, unfortunately failed to get it on the house list! Nice find by @kgbirder.bsky.social #BirdingScotland @birdinglothian.bsky.social

Marsh Harrier yesterday, with 2 blackwits this afternoon. Our 3rd garden Hummingbird Hawkmoth of the year today, the 4th since moving here 3 yrs ago! Wader numbers rising with 360 sanderling, 198 ringed plover & 108 dunlin #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

5 Quail tonight (3 new) in a stroll through fields as well as along the Aberlady-Ballencrief road, in what’s turning out to be a great year for them. Annoyingly they shut up soon after sunset so maybe more! @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland

INCOMING!!!!!! Got cracked on the head a beauty today, but it was worth it! Good to see lots on the Fetlar breeding grounds!

Fetlar delivers again! Started the day off with a pr of Red-necked Phalarope with a chick, then found a Rose-coloured Starling miles from yesterdays sighting! Same or diff, who knows!! Thanks to @tomrosas.bsky.social for pic. #BirdingScotland #BirdingShetland

Great day surveying today, highlights included a Honey Buzzard found by @nomadbirder.bsky.social then a Rose-coloured Starling by @tomrosas.bsky.social also 2 GND, 3 Arctic Skua & an otter! #BirdingScotland #Shetlandbirding

Today brought back memories of seeing Black-browed Albatross amongst several thousand Gannet at this spot, at Hermaness, Unst c.1983! #BirdingScotland

Currently on Shetland carrying out seabird surveys, today it was the Hermaness, Unst bonxies that were getting my attention! Very cool day!

Nice to see some good productivity from this Shag nest at least! This after a disasterous winter that wiped out many breeders, then the islands population getting hammered by the crows, we know of 60 predated eggs at least, resulting in many failures. #BirdingScotland #Seabirds

Managed to see my 4th Curlew Sand of the spring last Sunday at Aberlady, no video but my 2nd Hummingbird Hawkmoth in the garden in 3 yrs! #BirdingScotland #Moths #BirdingLothian

Just back from another cracking week on the May, highlights the islands 13th dipper, along with the 3rd confirmed Western Subalp, although migration was slow at times! Yesterdays Arctic Skua showing at point blank range stole the show for me though! #BirdingScotland

Its been a slog but a sprinkling of new birds yesterday gave us hope! Western Subalpine Warbler this morning. #BirdingScotland #IsleofMaybirdobs

Great start to the patch spring wader passage with 2 ad Curlew Sandpipers, along with a summ pl Black-throated Diver. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

Some top Meditteranean birding the last few days on Ventotene. Good to be back after 10yrs away! #Ventotenebirding @laziobirder.bsky.social

A nice imm peregrine to end the working day! Sporting a darvic no less, so be good to find out where it was hatched! #BirdingScotland

Bumped into my 4th White-billed Diver of the year in Lothian today at Torness, impossible to say if its a new bird or not after the recent influx, but enjoyable anyway! #BirdingScotland @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian

The immature m White-winged Scoter with its male partner, showed well this morning. Unfortunately for me the scoter flocks have been well offshore the past few days! Red-necked Grebe Ferny Ness also. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #BirdingLothian

Last week it was a Little Gull, this week it's a Med Gull. #patchbirding #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

The North Berwick White-billed Diver made an appearance today whilst searching for shag darvics! This was a nice surprise as i hadnt seen it on three previous visits! #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

I have been looking out for a Bonaparte's Gull, so when i encountered this small gull at Aberlady head on, it had me going for a second! Not what i was hoping for but very nice anyway! @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #BirdingLothian

A fem Marsh Harrier persued by crows at Aberlady was nice. Although dissapointed it was a day too late to make it for February, i was delighted to find out it was Loths earliest ever, after a bird @kgbirder.bsky.social & I had at Scoughall on 11/3/07. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland

Out working along Lothian's North Sea coastline again today. Highlights were 48 Whooper Swan NW past Dunbar, 2 Slavs (scarce in those parts), 2 Snow Bunt, & a pale billed diver i put down as a GND, for now! Also siskins on the move. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

Nice to bump into this imm m White-winged Scoter at Port Seton today whilst looking for shag darvics. Also RN Grebe offshore with 6 grey wagtails along coast to Aberlady. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #BirdingLothian

Nice views of this White-billed Diver today at North Berwick, whilst looking for shag darvics! @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

Out with @kgbirder.bsky.social today, highlights being this glauc, a male surf scoter, db brent goose and 6 russian whitefronts. #BirdingScotland @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian

A 8km walk from North Berwick-Aberlady resulted in 2 White-billed Diver (N. Berwick & Gullane Pt) single Great Northern Diver (Yellowcraig) 9 Snow Bunting, 15 Crossbill. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #BirdingLothian

Never one to follow the crowds i went west in my search for Lothian WBD. No sign of any between Hound Pt-Aberlady, but i did see c.120 gc grebe, 15 greenshank, 1 rn grebe. Pic of one of the Inchkeith birds from last Friday. @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #BirdingFife