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2017
Rarity/Scarcity
highlights: Bonaparte's
Gull, Spotted Crake, Red-backed Shrike,
Red-necked Phalarope, Eurasian Crane, Turtle
Dove, Grey-headed Wagtail, Great Egret,
Glossy Ibis, American Wigeon.
|
2024
| 2023
| 2022
| 2021 | 2020
| 2019 | 2018
| 2017
| 2016 | 2015
|
Date
|
Species
|
Count
|
Location
|
Details
|
Obs
|
|
December
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31/12/17
|
Little
Auk
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
south
|
DGr
|
|
|
Gannet
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Imm
flew south
|
DGr
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
south
|
DGr
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
85
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
14
|
Maidens
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brambling
|
2
|
Crosshill
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Hen
Harrier
|
1
|
Ashgrove
Loch
|
Male
|
AN
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/12/17
|
Twite
|
5
|
Largs
|
Noddsdale
Burn mouth
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Greylag
Goose
|
300
|
West
Kilbride
|
Bushglen
Farm
|
SMcM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/12/17
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Crosshill
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
1930
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/12/17
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
47
|
Fail
(flash)
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Fail
(farm)
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
9
|
Fail
(farm)
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Redwing
|
60
|
Greenan
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
6
|
Greenan
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Rozelle
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
180
|
Ardeer/Stevenston
Pt
|
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/12/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Juv
|
BG
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Juv
on Meadowhead pit
|
Gi
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/12/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Juv
|
DGi
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Juv
on Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Auk
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
south 09:25
|
DGi
|
|
|
Little
Auk
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
north 11:40
|
DR
|
|
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Girvan
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Snow
Bunting
|
2
|
Blackcraig
Hill
|
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/12/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Juv
on Meadowhead pit
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/12/17
|
Whooper
Swan
|
20+
|
Fail
|
|
AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/12/17
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
RK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
3
|
Hunterston
|
|
RK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/12/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Greenan
|
|
DK
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Goldenberry
Farm
|
PMcE/RK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/12/17
|
Jack
Snipe
|
6
|
Troon
|
Gypsy
Pool, Muirhead
|
BDK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
19
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Woodcock
|
1
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brambling
|
2
|
Crosshill
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/12/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Adult
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/12/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Adult
|
BDK/JC
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Monkton
|
Flew
over
|
JC
|
|
|
Merlin
|
1
|
Troon
|
|
JC
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
12
|
High
Greenan
|
|
JC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/12/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Balkenna
|
Drake
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/12/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Balkenna
|
Drake
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
1
|
Balkenna
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Woodcock
|
1
|
Dunure
|
At
castle
|
JC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/12/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Balkenna
|
Drake
|
RHH
|
|
|
Snow
Bunting
|
2
|
Balkenna
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Dipple-Balkenna
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
3
|
Dipple-Balkenna
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
Golden
Plover
|
360
|
Dipple-Balkenna
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
1
|
Dipple-Balkenna
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
10
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
2694
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Knot
|
4
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Golden
Plover
|
40
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/12/17
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Loans
|
|
SW
|
|
|
Merlin
|
1
|
Dipple
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Twite
|
120
|
Chapeldonan
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
45
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/12/17
|
"Blue"
Fulmar
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Dark
morph flew S
|
RHH
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
3
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/12/17
|
Pintail
|
1
|
SRUC
campus, Ayr
|
Drake
|
RH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/12/17
|
Whimbrel
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/12/17
|
Woodcock
|
5
|
Rozelle
|
|
JR
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Loans
|
|
JC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/12/17
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
1000+
|
Loans
|
|
SW
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
November
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/11/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
ad
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
DJ
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
100+
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
DJ
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
2
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/11/17
|
!
Bonaparte's
Gull
|
1
ad
|
Largs
|
Noddsdale
Water mouth
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/11/17
|
!
Bonaparte's
Gull
|
1
ad
|
Largs
|
Noddsdale
Water mouth
|
BG/RBA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/11/17
|
Kittiwake
|
76
|
Maidens
|
Flew
south in 30 mins
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Woodcock
|
13
|
undisclosed
site
|
Flew
from roost site
|
SI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/11/17
|
Lesser
Whitethroat
|
1
|
Ayr
|
In
private garden
|
TC
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
2
|
Loans
|
Ad
+ 2nd-w
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/11/17
|
Jack
Snipe
|
3
|
Troon
|
Gypsy
Pool, Muirhead
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/11/17
|
Hen
Harrier
|
1
|
Fail
Loch
|
Adult
male
|
DGr
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
8
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Twite
|
6
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Bogside
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
1
|
Kay
Park, Kilmarnock
|
|
AF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/11/17
|
Sanderling
|
56
|
Stevenston
beach
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
13
|
Saltcoats
harbour
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
9
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Twite
|
6
|
Stevenston
beach
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
1
|
Kay
Park, Kilmarnock
|
|
AF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/11/17
|
!
Bonaparte's
Gull
|
1
ad
|
Largs
|
Noddsdale
Water mouth
|
AAM
|
|
|
Little
Gull
|
1
ad
|
Largs
|
Noddsdale
Water mouth
|
AAM
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
1
|
Maidens
harbour
|
Offshore
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
harbour
|
light-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Water
Rail
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/11/17
|
Merlin
|
1
|
Ballast
Bank, Troon
|
|
JM
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
83
|
Bogside/Garnock
estuary
|
At
dusk roost
|
RBA
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
930+
|
Loans
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Loans
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Skylark
|
40+
|
Loans
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Curlew
|
134
|
Loans
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
7
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greylag
Goose
|
160
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Canada
Goose
|
290+
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Water
Rail
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/11/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Stevenston
Point
|
Juvenile
|
DJ
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
76
|
Fail
Loch
|
|
JM
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
200
|
Fail
Loch
|
|
JM
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
60
|
Dreghorn
|
Holmsford
Bridge
|
JM
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
17
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
2
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
2
|
Barassie
|
Offshore
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/11/17
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
823
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
70+
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
Flew
over
|
JT
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
200+
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
Flew
over
|
JT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/11/17
|
Fieldfare
|
1500+
|
Mochrum
Hill
|
|
DS/GS
|
|
|
Goldeneye
|
7
|
Culzean
|
Swan
Pond
|
DS/GS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/11/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
1st-cy
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/11/17
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
harbour
|
light-bellied hrota
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/11/17
|
Pochard
|
15
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
6
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/11/17
|
Water
Rail
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Fieldfare
|
100's
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
SI
|
|
|
Redwing
|
100's
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
SI
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
60
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
14
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
9
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/11/17
|
Lapwing
|
380+
|
Bogside/Garnock
Estuary
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/11/17
|
Swallow
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Knot
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Crossbill
|
30
|
Mochrum
Hill
|
|
HF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/11/17
|
Goosander
|
4
|
Auld
Brig, Ayr
|
|
AM
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
2
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Fieldfare
|
150
|
Busbiehead
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
October
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31/10/17
|
Knot
|
2
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Herring
Gull [18T:C]
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Ringed
Troon juv 31.07.17
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/10/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
105
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
61
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/10/17
|
Little
Egret
|
3
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Willow
Tit
|
1
|
Bogton
Loch
|
Dalcairney
end
|
RHH
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Gadwall
|
2
|
Barnshean
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
30
|
Fail
|
|
AMD
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/10/17
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
28
|
Troon
|
Gypsy
Pool
|
BDK
|
|
|
Skylark
|
50
|
Troon
|
Gypsy
Pool
|
BDK
|
|
|
Shoveler
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
8
|
Garnock
Estuary
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/10/17
|
Whooper
Swan
|
1
|
Belston
Loch
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Barbieston
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
5
|
Capringstone
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
5
|
Capringstone
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
5
|
Capringstone
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/10/17
|
Ring
Ouzel
|
1
|
Drongan
|
Male,
Cloquhairnan
|
RHH
|
|
|
Redwing
|
400
|
Trabboch
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Fieldfare
|
1000
|
Ayr
|
Flew
over Masonhill
|
TC
|
|
|
Fieldfare
|
350
|
Trabboch
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Goldeneye
|
2
|
Trabboch
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Swallow
|
1
|
Trabboch
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/10/17
|
Ring
Ouzel
|
1
|
Drongan
|
Male,
Barbieston Farm
|
DG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/10/17
|
Goosander
|
9
|
River
Ayr, UWS campus
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/10/17
|
Whooper
Swan
|
47
|
Greenan
|
|
DK
|
|
|
Redwing
|
58
|
Ayr
|
Flew
over Masonhill
|
ATS/GS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/10/17
|
Brambling
|
4
|
Bogton
Loch
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
3
|
Maidens
|
Greenland
leucorhoa
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Redwing
|
28
|
Crosshill
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
20
|
Tarbolton
|
|
AM
|
|
|
Pochard
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
Male
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/10/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Female
|
TC
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
12
|
Maidens
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
2
|
Kilmaurs
|
At
garden feeding station
|
RT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/10/17
|
Leach's
Petrel
|
2
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
Flew
north
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
7
|
High
Greenan
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/10/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Ad
|
SB
|
|
|
Nuthatch
|
1
|
Tarbolton
|
|
AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/10/17
|
!
Yellow-browed
Warbler
|
1
|
Gailes
Marsh
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/10/17
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Curlew
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
2
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
3
|
High
Greenan
|
|
DK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08/10/17
|
!
Yellow-browed
Warbler
|
1
|
Troon
|
North
Drive
|
BDK
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
10
|
Hunterston
|
|
DT
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
DT
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
DT
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
163
|
Fail
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Curlew
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Stinking
Rocks
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
11
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
JL
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
13
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Auk
spp.
|
200
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
Flew
S
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/10/17
|
Sabine's
Gull
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Juv
flew
S
|
RHH
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
4
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S/2h
|
RHH
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
240
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S/2h
|
RHH
|
|
|
Kittiwake
|
176
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S/2h
|
RHH
|
|
|
Auk
spp.
|
450
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S/2h
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Maidens
|
1st-w
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
3
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/10/17
|
Brent
Goose
|
4
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
6
|
Maidens
|
Flew
N
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
5
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
3
|
Hunterston
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
5
|
Hunterston
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Fail
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
65
|
Fail
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/10/17
|
Brent
Goose
|
3
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Greenland
leucorhoa
|
RHH
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
70
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S/1h
|
RHH
|
|
|
Kittiwake
|
40
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S/1h
|
RHH
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
3
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/10/17
|
Leach's
Petrel
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Offshore
|
BDK
|
|
|
Storm
Petrel
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Offshore
|
BDK
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Culzean
Bay
|
|
DA
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
9
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Puffin
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Scaup
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
23
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/10/17
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Offshore
|
BDK
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
7
|
Hunterston
|
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Adult
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
2
|
Barassie
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
157
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Gannet
|
66
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
34
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/10/17
|
Leach's
Petrel
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Offshore
|
BDK
|
|
|
Curlew
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Stint
|
1
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
3
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
16
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Gannet
|
110
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/10/17
|
Little
Stint
|
1
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Curlew
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Storm
Petrel
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Offshore
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
32
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Gannet
|
47
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
86
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
September
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/09/17
|
Little
Stint
|
3
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
AS/BDK
|
|
|
Ruff
|
15
|
Bogside
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/09/17
|
!
Red-necked
Phalarope
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
BL/DMcB/SB
|
|
|
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
TC/SB
|
|
|
Little
Stint
|
3
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Gannet
|
146
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Eider
|
263
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
3
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
3
|
Fail
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/09/17
|
!
Red-necked
Phalarope
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
JT/JA/BA
|
|
|
Pintail
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
JT
|
|
|
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
BP/HF
|
|
|
Water
Rail
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
HF
|
|
|
Redwing
|
5
|
Trabboch
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
9
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/09/17
|
!
Red-necked
Phalarope
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
AS
|
|
|
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
TC/SM
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Ardrossan
|
On
north beach
|
JN
|
|
|
Ruff
|
16
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/09/17
|
!
Red-necked
Phalarope
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
MH/DJ/RGV
|
|
|
Garganey
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
TC
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Puffin
|
6
|
Portencross
|
|
RH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
182
|
Drongan
|
Flew
SW
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/09/17
|
!
Red-backed
Shrike
|
1
|
Troon
|
E
side of harbour/Barassie
|
RK/BDK
|
|
|
!
Red-necked
Phalarope
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
DG
|
|
|
!
Turtle
Dove
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
DE
|
|
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
SW
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
GB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
BMcM/CC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
SW
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/09/17
|
Curlew
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
LR
|
|
|
Knot
|
3
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
TR/AMD
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
7
|
Bogside/Lower
Garnock
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
5
|
Bogside/Lower
Garnock
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
3
|
Bogside/Lower
Garnock
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Ruff
|
3
|
Bogside/Lower
Garnock
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Knot
|
1
|
Bogside/Lower
Garnock
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
4
|
Bogside/Lower
Garnock
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Goldfinch
|
200
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
IHL
|
|
|
427
individuals of 53 spp in 3h
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Spotted
Flycatcher
|
1
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
3
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Inc
singing bird
|
FSS
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
4
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Inc
singing bird
|
FSS
|
|
|
Meadow
Pipit
|
29
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Redpoll
|
8
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Siskin
|
2
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Bullfinch
|
6
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Pr
+ 4 juvs
|
FSS
|
|
|
Dipper
|
2
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water
|
FSS
|
|
|
Grey
Wagtail
|
3
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water
|
FSS
|
|
|
Teal
|
5
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water marsh
|
FSS
|
|
|
Snipe
|
1
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water marsh
|
FSS
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
POD
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
FSS
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
RGV/AS
|
|
|
541
individuals of 54 spp in 3h
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
103
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Mistle
Thrush
|
21
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Meadow
Pipit
|
44
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Skylark
|
7
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Redpoll
|
3
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Siskin
|
9
S
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Bullfinch
|
6
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Dipper
|
4
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
2
ad/2 imm Carmel Water
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water
|
FSS
|
|
|
Grey
Wagtail
|
2
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water
|
FSS
|
|
|
Teal
|
6
|
Knockentiber
Viaduct
|
Carmel
Water marsh
|
FSS
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
7
|
Doonfoot
|
|
IHL
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
5
|
Doonfoot
|
|
IHL
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
IHL
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
nc
|
Doonfoot
|
Small
flocks flying south
|
IHL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
DMcB
|
|
|
739
individuals of 55 spp in 4h
|
Capringstone/Annick
W.
|
+
adjacent cyclepath
|
FSS
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
36
|
Capringstone
|
16
+ 20 flying E
|
FSS
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
9
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Teal
|
38
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
9
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Canada
Goose
|
251
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Dipper
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
BDK/MH
|
|
|
1122
individuals of 59 spp in 6h
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
68
SE
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Dipper
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Swallow
|
117
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
House
Martin
|
30
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
2
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
9
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Siskin
|
12
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Buzzard
|
6
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Sparrowhawk
|
4
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Peregrine
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kestrel
|
3
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
9
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
GMcA/RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/09/17
|
!
Spotted
Crake
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
In
lagoon
|
FMcC
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Knot
|
8
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
3
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Hooded
Crow
|
2
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Greylag
Goose
|
365
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
5
|
Hunterston
|
Highthorn
Bridge pools
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
4
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
15
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
3
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/09/17
|
Grey
Phalarope
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Seawatch
09:30-14:00
|
RHH
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Seawatch
09:30-14:00
|
RHH
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
19
|
Maidens
|
Seawatch
09:30-14:00
|
RHH
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
400
|
Maidens
|
Seawatch
09:30-14:00
|
RHH
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
7
|
Maidens
|
In
harbour
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TR
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
2
|
Turnberry
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/09/17
|
Ruff
|
4
|
Blairbowie
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
13
|
Blairbowie
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Blairbowie
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
3
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Golden
Plover
|
75
|
Ballast
Bank, Troon
|
|
EF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/09/17
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Highthorn
Bridge pools
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
7
|
Hunterston
|
Highthorn
Bridge pools
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
110
|
Maidens
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08/09/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
|
RK
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Highthorn
Bridge pools
|
RK
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
11
|
Hunterston
|
Highthorn
Bridge pools
|
RK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/09/17
|
Ruff
|
2
|
Bogside/Garnock
Estuary
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
16
|
Bogside/Garnock
Estuary
|
|
SI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/09/17
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Fail
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Lapwing
|
1130
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Grey
Heron
|
25
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/09/17
|
Great
Skua
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/09/17
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
300
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
August
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31/08/17
|
Ruff
|
3
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
5
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Shelduck
|
2
|
Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
9
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Female
|
RHH
|
|
|
Golden
Plover
|
9
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Arctic
Tern
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Juvenile
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/08/17
|
Arctic
Skua
|
1
|
Irvine
|
Pale
morph flew south
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Whinchat
|
2
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Shoveler
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/08/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Female
|
RT
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
10
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RT
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
11
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/08/17
|
Garganey
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
JMcA
|
|
|
Mandarin
Duck
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
JMcA
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
36
|
Maidens
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/08/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Female
|
JC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/08/17
|
!
Grey-headed
Wagtail
|
1
|
Troon
south beach
|
thunbergi
|
GB
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Female
|
GB
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
33
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
10
|
Southannan
Sands
|
Hunterston
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Knot
|
2
|
Southannan
Sands
|
Hunterston
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
7
|
Southannan
Sands
|
Hunterston
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
3
|
Highthorn
Bridge
|
Hunterston
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/08/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour
|
Adult
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
5
|
Hunterston
|
|
RH
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
5
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JA
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JA
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
3
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/08/17
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
42
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Knot
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
9
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Lapwing
|
28
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Ringed
Plover
|
4
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
2
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Lapwing
|
8
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/08/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JA
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
44
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Knot
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
4
|
Fail,
Tarbolton
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
6
|
Doonfoot
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/08/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Female
|
GB
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
13
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
5
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/08/17
|
Great
Skua
|
1
|
Ardrossan-Brodick
ferry
|
10
mins off Ardrossan
|
JC
|
|
|
Balearic
Shearwater
|
1
|
Maidens
|
South
in 5h
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
2000
|
Maidens
|
South
in 5h
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
European
Storm-petrel
|
1
|
Maidens
|
South
in 5h
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Great
Skua
|
3
|
Maidens
|
South
in 5h
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Kittiwake
|
200
|
Maidens
|
South
in 5h
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Maidens
|
South
in 5h
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Knot
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Golden
Plover
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH/DG
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
2000
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
north in 1h
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
30
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
north in 1h
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/08/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Broomhill
Fishery
|
Rankinston
|
EF
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
160
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/08/17
|
Sanderling
|
9
|
Balkenna
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Ringed
Plover
|
140
|
Balkenna
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
2
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
KW
|
|
|
Nuthatch
|
1
|
Eglinton
CP
|
|
PMcE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/08/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Troon
|
Flew
north
|
GB
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
22
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
193
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/08/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
45
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
New
Scottish record*
|
BG
|
|
|
Red
Kite
|
1
|
Goldenberry
Hill
|
Flew
S to West Kilbride
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
CBL
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Bogside
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/08/17
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/08/17
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Ad
|
GB
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
11
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
Inc
2 juvs
|
GB
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
2000
|
Troon
harbour
|
S
in 30 mins
|
BDK
|
|
|
Swift
|
100+
|
West
Kilbride
|
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/08/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/08/17
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Bogside/Garnock
estuary
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/08/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Fishing
- caught a Mackerel
|
AS
|
|
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
1st-s
|
BG
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
1117
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Ringed
Plover
|
61
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/08/17
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
3
|
Troon
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mandarin
Duck
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
Female
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/08/17
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
4100
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S in 3 hrs
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
240
|
Maidens
|
Flew
S in 3 hrs
|
RHH
|
|
|
Great
Skua
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Mandarin
Duck
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
Female
|
BDK
|
|
|
Redstart
|
1
|
Bonnyton
dis railway line
|
Female
near Knockentiber
|
SI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/08/17
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
AH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Green
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
6
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/08/17
|
Greenshank
|
11
|
Bogside/Garnock
estuary
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Green
Sandpiper
|
4
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
17
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Arctic
Tern
|
3
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
77
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
July
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31/07/17
|
Quail
|
2
|
Biggary
Burn, Barmuir
|
2
mm, E of Tarbolton
|
MH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Green
Sandpiper
|
5
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
1
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/07/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
20
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Arctic
Tern
|
2
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
49
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Turnstone
|
2
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
3
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/07/17
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
800
|
Maidens
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
37
|
Balkenna
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Turnstone
|
5
|
Balkenna
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
65+
|
Balkenna
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/07/17
|
Swift
|
100+
|
Kilmarnock
|
New
Farm Loch
|
SI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/07/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1st-s
|
Skares
|
At
surface mine
|
MH
|
|
|
Arctic
Tern
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
26
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/07/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1st-s
|
Skares
|
At
surface mine
|
MH
|
|
|
Knot
|
3
|
Doonfoot
|
|
BE
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
6
|
Doonfoot
|
|
BE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/07/17
|
Quail
|
1
|
Adamhill,
Tarbolton
|
Singing
m
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/07/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
13
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
SS/GB
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
7
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
SS/GB
|
|
|
Knot
|
13
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Arctic
Tern
|
3
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
700
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Flew
north
|
RHH
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
3
|
Maidens
|
Flew
north
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Ballantrae
|
|
SS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17-21/07/17
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
27
prs
|
Springside-Kilmaurs
area
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Yellowhammer
|
77
mm
|
Kilmarnock
area
|
100
km2 on west side
|
FSS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/07/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Bogside
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/07/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
4
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/07/17
|
Little
Gull
|
1st-s
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/07/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
2
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
5
|
Doonfoot
|
|
GB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/07/17
|
!
Gull-billed
Tern
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
south
|
BDK
|
|
|
Quail
|
1
|
Fail
Loch, Tarbolton
|
Singing
m
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
7
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/07/17
|
Quail
|
1
|
Boghead
Farm, Tarbolton
|
Singing
m
|
DJ
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/07/17
|
Quail
|
1
|
Boghead
Farm, Tarbolton
|
Singing
m
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/07/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
7
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Arctic
Tern
|
3
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
5
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
4
|
Doonfoot
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/07/17
|
Quail
|
1
|
Boghead
Fm, Tarbolton
|
Singing
m
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/07/17
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Garnock
Estuary
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/07/17
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Garnock
Estuary
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
June
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/06/17
|
Greenshank
|
4
|
Doonfoot
|
|
SB
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
250+
|
Doonfoot
|
|
SB
|
|
|
Red-breasted
Merganser
|
14
|
Doonfoot
|
|
SB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/06/17
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
100
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
north
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/06/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
Briefly
over
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/06/17
|
Great
Crested Grebe
|
b/1
|
Tarryholme,
Irvine
|
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
May
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31/05/17
|
Quail
|
1
|
Troon
|
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/05/17
|
Green
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
NG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/05/17
|
Redstart
|
1
|
Glen
App
|
Singing
male
|
RHH
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
4
|
Glen
App
|
4
singing males
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
Flew
north
|
RBA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/05/17
|
!
Great
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/05/17
|
!
Great
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/05/17
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Gailes
Marsh SWT
|
Singing
male
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/05/17
|
!
Great
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/05/17
|
Wood
Warbler
|
1
|
Ness
Glen
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/05/17
|
Great
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
4
|
Saltcoats
|
Flew
north
|
RBA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/05/17
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
|
GMcA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/05/17
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
3
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
north
|
BG
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
71
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/05/17
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
north
|
BDK
|
|
|
Puffin
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Knot
|
10
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
71
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Ringed
Plover
|
81
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
87
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/05/17
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
2
|
Saltcoats
|
Flew
north
|
RBA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/05/17
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Arctic
Skua
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Whinchat
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Female
|
JMcP
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/05/17
|
!
Eurasian
Crane
|
1
|
Commondyke,
Auchinleck
|
|
JMcC
|
|
|
Spotted
Flycatcher
|
1
|
Glendoune,
Girvan
|
|
JMcW
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/05/17
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
22
|
Pow
Burn
|
22
singing mm
|
JA
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
57
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
57
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
8
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
8
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
23
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
23
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
4
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
4
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Blackcap
|
11
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
11
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Garden
Warbler
|
1
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
1
singing m
|
BDK
|
|
|
Whitethroat
|
14
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
14
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Lesser
Whitethroat
|
1
|
Shewalton
Wood SWT
|
1
singing m
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/05/17
|
Wood
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
9
|
Lady
Isle
|
Flew
west
|
DGr
|
|
|
Common
Tern
|
45
|
Lady
Isle
|
Flew
south
|
DGr
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
70
|
Lady
Isle
|
Roosting
|
DGr
|
|
|
Swift
|
5
|
Troon
harbour
|
Over
marina
|
DGr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/05/17
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
3
|
Saltcoats
|
1 flew S, 2 flew N/E
|
RBA
|
|
|
Swift
|
8
|
Saltcoats
|
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Loch
Lochton, Girvan
|
|
JMcW
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/05/17
|
Ruff
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
SI
|
|
|
White
Wagtail
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Swift
|
1
|
Ayr,
Masonhill
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Swift
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
|
PMcE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/05/17
|
Swift
|
3
|
Kilmarnock,
New Farm L
|
First of the year
|
SI
|
|
|
Red
Kite
|
1
|
High
Tarbeg Fm, Ochiltree
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Ruff
|
2
|
Blairbowie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/05/17
|
Fieldfare
|
31
|
Townhead
of Greenock
|
Between
Sorn & Muirkirk
|
MH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
1
|
Broomhill
|
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/05/17
|
!
Glossy
Ibis
|
1
|
Longbar,
Glengarnock
|
Still at 20:15, NS328529
|
SW
|
|
|
|
|
On
farm pool, 200m SE of Lochshire Industrial
Estate/railway bridge
|
|
|
Little
Tern
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
First
of the year
|
BDK
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
9
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
5
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
2
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
11
|
Pow
Burn
|
11-12
singing
mm
|
RHH
|
|
|
Stonechat
|
4
prs
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whitethroat
|
8
|
Pow
Burn
|
8
singing
mm
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/05/17
|
!
Glossy
Ibis
|
1
|
Longbar,
Glengarnock
|
NS328529
-
3rd since 1907
|
BDK/GMcA
|
|
|
Wood
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Longbar,
Glengarnock
|
NS328529
|
BDK/GMcA
|
|
|
Marsh
Harrier
|
1
|
Garnock
lagoons
|
Dark morph
|
TB
|
|
|
Spotted
Flycatcher
|
1
|
Ness
Glen
|
First
of the year
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Redstart
|
1
|
Loch
Doon
|
3
singing mm
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Whinchat
|
1
|
Loch
Doon
|
Singing
male
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
pr
|
Loch
Doon
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Tree
Pipit
|
4
|
Loch
Doon
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Muirhead,
Troon
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Loch
Riecawr-Loch Doon
|
4
singing mm
|
RHH
|
|
|
Tree
Pipit
|
1
|
Loch
Riecawr-Loch Doon
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whinchat
|
1
|
Loch
Riecawr-Loch Doon
|
Male
|
RHH
|
|
|
Crossbill
|
5-6
|
Ness
Glen
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Redstart
|
1
|
Ness
Glen
|
Singing
male
|
RHH
|
|
|
Tree
Pipit
|
1
|
Ness
Glen
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Shewlaton
Woods
|
Singing
male
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/05/17
|
!
Lapland
Bunting
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Lesser
Whitethroat
|
1
|
Glen
App
|
Singing
male in lower glen
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
April
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/04/17
|
Marsh
Harrier
|
1
|
Baltersan
Castle, Maybole
|
Female
flew north
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whinchat
|
1
|
Glenbuck
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
50+
|
Munnoch
Reservoir
|
|
AS
|
|
|
Short-eared
Owl
|
1
|
Shewalton
sandpits SWT
|
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/04/17
|
Arctic
Tern
|
50+
|
Saltcoats
harbour
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
29
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/04/17
|
Tree
Pipit
|
1
|
Ness
Glen
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Tree
Pipit
|
1
|
Little
Shalloch
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Redstart
|
1
|
Knockshinnoch
lagoons
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
White
Wagtail
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/04/17
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Barr
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Puffin
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/04/17
|
Whitethroat
|
1
|
Greenan
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/04/17
|
Marsh
Harrier
|
1
|
Saltcoats
harbour
|
Flew
past
|
SOC
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Black-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Dalmaca
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
18
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Common
Sandpiper
|
3
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/04/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Largs
|
|
AB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/04/17
|
Redstart
|
1
|
Straiton
|
First
of the year
|
MH
|
|
|
Pomarine
Skua
|
1
|
Troon
|
imm
flew north
|
JMcG
|
|
|
Great
Skua
|
2
|
Troon
|
Flew
north-east
|
JMcG
|
|
|
Lesser
Whitethroat
|
5
|
Ardeer
|
5
singing m
|
SOC
|
|
|
Lesser
Whitethroat
|
1
|
Greenan
|
Singing m
- first
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
17
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
JT
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Garnock
Lagoons
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Loch
Doon
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
4
|
Broomhill,
Knockshinnoch
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
3
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
3
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
1
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
1
singing m
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/04/17
|
Sanderling
|
100+
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
DJ
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
10
|
Culzean
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
4
|
Doonfoot
|
|
MH
|
|
|
White
Wagtail
|
30
|
Skelmorlie
|
|
AH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/04/17
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
1
|
Tarryholme
pond
|
1
singing m
|
AS
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
|
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/04/17
|
Corncrake
|
2
|
Dunure
|
Apparently
seen - not vocal
|
ND
|
|
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
1st-s
flew south
|
RBA
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
2
|
Garnock
Floods
|
2
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
1
singing m
|
BDK
|
|
|
Willow Warbler
|
13
|
Garnock
Floods
|
13
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
6
|
Shewalton
Woods SWT
|
6
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
2
|
Shewalton
Woods SWT
|
2
singing m
|
BDK
|
|
|
Willow Warbler
|
28
|
Shewalton
Woods SWT
|
28
singing mm
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/04/17
|
Arctic
Tern
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Whitethroat
|
1
|
Collennan
|
First
of the year
|
BDK
|
|
|
Garden
Warbler
|
2
|
Collennan
|
First
of the year
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/04/17
|
Cuckoo
|
1
|
Skelmorlie
Water
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
1
|
Greenan
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
1st-s
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Willow Warbler
|
58
|
Kilmarnock-Springside
rail
|
58
singing mm
|
FSS
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
13
|
Kilmarnock-Springside
rail
|
Flew
north
|
FSS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/04/17
|
White
Wagtail
|
21
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
30
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Swallow
|
10
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
1+
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
GB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/04/17
|
Willow Warbler
|
32
|
Kilmarnock-Springside
rail
|
32
singing mm
|
FSS
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warbler
|
1
|
Garnock
Lagoons
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Grasshopper
Warble
|
1
|
Ardeer
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Ring
Ouzel
|
1
|
Loudoun
Hill
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Stanley
Burn, Saltcoats
|
juv
|
RBA
|
|
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
1
|
Ardeer
|
1
singing m
|
KH
|
|
|
Lesser
Redpoll
|
13
|
Todhill
community wood
|
|
DJ
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/04/17
|
Sedge
Warbler
|
1
|
Ardeer
|
First
of the year
|
KH
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Riccarton
Moss
|
|
AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/04/17
|
Marsh
Harrier
|
1
|
Common
Loch
|
Passing
through
|
MH
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
6
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/04/17
|
Great
Skua
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Ad,
Meadowhead Rd pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
6
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/04/17
|
Waxwing
|
1
|
Kilkerran
|
In
private garden
|
RHH
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
3
|
Oldhall
Ponds
|
|
RH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/04/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
Flew
west
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Ring
Ouzel
|
2
|
Loch Macaterick
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Common
Sandpiper
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
2
|
Dalmaca
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
7
|
Blairbowie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Blairbowie
|
1st-w
|
BDK
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
204
|
Blairbowie
|
Flew
north
|
BDK
|
|
|
Swallow
|
2
|
Loch Doon
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Swallow
|
1
|
Skeldon
Mains
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Swallow
|
1
|
Alloway
|
|
BF
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Troon
|
South
Beach
|
EF
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
5
|
Bogton
Loch
|
5
singing mm
|
EF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08/04/17
|
Little
Ringed Plover
|
1
|
Blairbowie
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
Whimbrel
|
1
|
Saltcoats
harbour
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
200
|
Irvine
harb-Stevenston Pt
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
80+
|
Irvine
harb-Stevenston Pt
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
2+
|
Shewlaton
Wood SWT
|
|
GS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/04/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Culzean
|
|
KW
|
|
|
Great
Skua
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
1
|
Culzean
|
|
KW
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
7
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
1
|
Rozelle
|
|
TR
|
|
|
Shoveler
|
1
|
Rozelle
|
Male
|
TR
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/04/17
|
Willow
Warbler
|
1
|
Dean
Castle Country Park
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Ad,
Meadowhead Rd pit
|
RHH
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
1st-s,
Meadowhead Rd pit
|
RHH
|
|
|
Crossbill
|
1
|
Dean
Castle Country Park
|
Eastern
side
|
SI
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
17
|
Broomhill,
Knockshinnoch
|
|
EF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/04/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Blairbowie
|
1st-s
|
RHH
|
|
|
Yellow-legged
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Ad
|
BG
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
2
|
Collennan
Reservoir
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
White
Wagtail
|
3
|
Loudoun
Hill
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
10
|
Doonfoot
|
Flew
north
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
4
ringed Co Down 31.01.17
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/04/17
|
Osprey
|
1
|
Loch
Doon
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
House
Martin
|
1
|
Loans
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
Green
Woodpecker
|
1
|
Auchinleck
Estate
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
15
|
Nith
Valley
|
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/04/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
2
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
20+
|
Saltcoats
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
20
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Willow
Warbler
|
1
|
Shewalton
Sandpits SWT
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/04/17
|
House
Martin
|
2
|
Loch
Doon
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Swallow
|
1
|
Ardneil
Bay
|
First
of the year
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Swallow
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Snow
Bunting
|
1
|
Glen
App
|
Flew
north
|
RHH
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Auchenharvie
|
1st-w
|
GB
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
2
|
Fairlie
|
|
RH
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
7-8
|
Colmonell
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
1
|
Auchenharvie
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Scaup
|
17
|
Auchenharvie
|
|
GB
|
|
|
Crossbill
|
2
|
Troon
|
South
Wood
|
GB
|
|
|
Crossbill
|
2
|
Kilwinning
|
Corsehillmuir
Wood SWT
|
RH/SI
|
|
|
Blackcap
|
1
|
Ballantrae
|
Singing
male
|
RHH
|
|
|
Blackcap
|
1
|
Kilwinning
|
Corsehillmuir
Wood SWT
|
RH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
10's
|
Colmonell-Glen
App
|
"loads
singing"
|
RHH
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Ardneil
Bay
|
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Nuthatch
|
2
|
Dalreoch
House
|
2
singing mm
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/04/17
|
White
Wagtail
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
White
Wagtail
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
2
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
7
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
65
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
19
|
Irvine
harbour
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Nuthatch
|
3
|
Dean
Castle Country Park
|
Eastern
side
|
SI
|
|
|
Pintail
|
3
|
Hunterston
|
Southannan
Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Gadwall
|
2
|
Hunterston
|
Southannan
Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Shoveler
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Southannan
Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
2
|
Hunterston
House
|
2
singing mm
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
2
|
Hunterston
|
Flew
north
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
March
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31/03/17
|
Goosander
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Pair
at weir
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Red-breasted
Merganser
|
4
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Teal
|
100+
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
36
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Redshank
|
90+
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/03/17
|
Willow
Warbler
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
First
of the year
|
SI
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
1
|
Kilwinning
|
Singing
male at station
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
Singing
male
|
SI
|
|
|
Teal
|
110
|
Capringstone
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
75
|
Capringstone
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Shelduck
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Shoveler
|
2
|
Trabboch
Loch
|
Pair
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
410
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
Sandhill
Farm
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Female
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
5
|
Kilmaurs
|
In
private garden
|
RT
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
4
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
RH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
RH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/03/17
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
2
|
Hunterston
|
On
the lagoon
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/03/17
|
Green
Woodpecker
|
2
|
Straiton
|
Pair
|
RHH
|
|
|
Blackcap
|
2
|
Muirhouse,
Troon
|
First
of the year
|
BDK
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
2
|
Loch
Doon
|
Beoch
Farm
|
RHH
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Troon
|
South
Beach
|
JD
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Tarryholme
pond, Irvine
|
|
AS
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
2
|
Craigengillan
|
Singing
male
|
RHH
|
|
|
Stonechat
|
5
prs
|
Troon
|
South
Beach
|
JD
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/03/17
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Largs
|
Ad
Noddsdale Burn mouth
|
BG
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Auchenharvie
|
1st-w
|
JD
|
|
|
Scaup
|
23
|
Auchenharvie
|
|
JD
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/03/17
|
Ring
Ouzel
|
1
|
Glen
Afton
|
First
of the year
|
JMcG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
|
JC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/03/17
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
|
RL
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Largs
|
|
GT
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
10
|
Turnberry
Point
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
4
|
Turnberry
Point
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
40
|
Turnberry
Point
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Knot
|
11
|
Turnberry
Point
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/03/17
|
!
Bonaparte's
Gull
|
1
|
Largs
|
Ad
Noddsdale Burn mouth
|
AR
|
|
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Largs
|
2nd-w
Noddsdale Burn
|
BG
|
|
|
Sandwich
Tern
|
2
|
Hunterston
|
First
of the year
|
SOC
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
1st-w
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/03/17
|
!
Bonaparte's
Gull
|
1
|
Largs
|
Ad
100m S Noddsdale Burn
|
BG
|
|
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male,
Southannan Sands
|
BDK
|
|
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
1st-w
Southannan Sands
|
BDK
|
|
|
Scaup
|
26
|
Auchenharvie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
4
|
Ardrossan
|
On
the sea
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/03/17
|
Sand
Martin
|
12
|
Mochrum
Loch
|
|
DK
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
3
|
Ladyton
Loch
|
Milton
Road, Galston
|
SI
|
|
|
Smew
|
1
|
Barnshean
Loch
|
Redhead
|
RHH
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
1
|
Maidens
|
First
of the year
|
RHH
|
|
|
Manx
Shearwater
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
First
of the year
|
BDK
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
4
ringed Co Down 31.01.17
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
30
|
Crossraguel
|
At
North Mains farm
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
25
|
Rankinston
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Gannet
|
198
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Comon
Scoter
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/03/17
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
30
|
Crossraguel
|
At
North Mains farm
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/03/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Southannan Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Male
at Slaphouse Burn
|
RGV
|
|
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Irvine
beach park
|
Male
|
JA/BA
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
23
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
JBDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/03/17
|
Smew
|
1
|
Barnshean
Loch
|
Redhead
|
DGr
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
BT
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
20
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
13
|
Broomhill,
Knockshinnoch
|
|
EF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/03/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Male
at Fairlie Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/03/17
|
Smew
|
1
|
Barnshean
Loch
|
Redhead
|
RHH
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Saltcoats
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Gannet
|
19
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/03/17
|
Smew
|
1
|
Barnshean
Loch
|
Redhead
|
BG
|
|
|
Sand
Martin
|
5
|
Kilbirnie
Loch
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
1
|
Collennan
Reservoir
|
First
of the year
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/03/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Male
at Fairlie Sands
|
AS
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
BT
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
16
|
Drybridge
|
Opp.
GSK at wind turbines
|
RW
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/03/17
|
Sand
Martin
|
1
|
Prestwick
|
|
SOC
|
|
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
Lagoon
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/03/17
|
Sand
Martin
|
1
|
Greenan
Castle
|
First
of the year
|
DGr
|
|
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Male
at Fairlie Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Great
Crested Grebe
|
1
|
Tarryholme
|
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/03/17
|
Wheatear
|
1
|
Seamill
|
First
of the year
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
2
|
Pow
Burn
|
Adults
|
GB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/03/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Seamill
|
1st-w
|
AJ
|
|
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Tarryholme
|
In
private garden
|
AS
|
|
|
Siskin
|
20
|
Tarryholme
|
In
private garden
|
AS
|
|
|
Lesser
Redpoll
|
10
|
Tarryholme
|
In
private garden
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08/03/17
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/03/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/03/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
AM
|
|
|
Green
Sandpiper
|
1
|
River
Ayr, Annbank
|
Mile
upstream of village
|
CK
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
BG
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
6
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
AM
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
4
|
Fairlie
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/03/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
DG
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
2
|
Fairlie
|
|
DT
|
|
|
Pintail
|
pr
|
Hunterston
|
|
DT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/03/17
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
BG
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Nuthatch
|
2
|
Ayr,
Rosebank Crescent
|
In
private garden
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/03/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
BG
|
|
|
Lady
Amherst's Pheasant
|
1
|
Howberry
Farm, North Balloch
|
Escape
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/03/17
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
170
|
Kilmarnock,
flying over
|
From
Riccarton Moss
|
RW
|
|
|
Knot
|
5
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/03/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Red-necked
Grebe
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
Swimming
north
|
RHH
|
|
|
Slavonian
Grebe
|
1
|
Lendalfoot
|
Off
layby at south end
|
BG
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
Male
|
RHH
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
65
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Scaup
|
34
|
Auchenharvie
Pond
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
70
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
6
|
Hunterston
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Shoveler
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Gadwall
|
4
|
Hunterston
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Golden
Plover
|
23
|
Blairbowie
|
Migrants
back inland
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
February
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28/02/17
|
Waxwing
|
7
|
Irvine,
Portland Road
|
Opposite
Portland Place
|
BG
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
5
|
Todhill
Community Wood
|
Opposite
entrance to
|
BG
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/02/17
|
Waxwing
|
7
|
Irvine,
Portland Road
|
Opposite
Portland Place
|
DJ
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Auchenharvie
GC
|
Juvenile
|
BG
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Troon
|
Female
off old swim. pool
|
JA
|
|
|
Scaup
|
33
|
Auchenharvie
GC
|
On
GC pond
|
BG
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
2
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
HM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/02/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Auchenharvie
GC
|
Juvenile
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
|
SMcM
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
SMcM
|
|
|
Scaup
|
33
|
Auchenharvie
GC
|
On
GC pond
|
BG
|
|
|
Gannet
|
a
few
|
Portencross
|
|
SMcM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/02/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan Sands
|
BG
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Ardeer
Rec Pond
|
Juvenile
|
BG
|
|
|
Goosander
|
15
|
Kay
Park, Kilmarnock
|
Kay
Park pond
|
AF
|
|
|
Goldeneye
|
1
|
Kay
Park, Kilmarnock
|
Male
|
AF
|
|
|
Brambling
|
1
|
Tarryholme,
Irvine
|
In
private garden
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24/02/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
Sandpits SWT
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Adult
|
RHH
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
14
|
Troon
harbour
|
Roosting
at Ballast Bank
|
RHH
|
|
|
Knot
|
39
|
Troon
harbour
|
Roosting
at Ballast Bank
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
375
|
Troon
harbour
|
Roosting
at Ballast Bank
|
RHH
|
|
|
Curlew
|
122
|
Loans
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/02/17
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
2
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
Greenland
flavirostris
|
AS
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
1
|
Yonderfield,
West Kilbride
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
AS
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AS
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
16
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
TC
|
|
|
Gannet
|
2
|
Maidens
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
25
|
Broomhill,
Knockshinnoch
|
|
EF
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
20
|
Crossraguel
|
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/02/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
16
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/02/17
|
Yellow-legged
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Adult
|
BG
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
2
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/02/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
1st-w
|
BG
|
|
|
Iceland
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
Flew
SW
|
MP
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Kilmarnock
|
Kay
Park pond
|
AF
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
20
|
Ayr
|
Hawthorn
Drive, Castlehill
|
BG
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
19
|
Benslie
|
16
ads + 3 juvs
|
DJ
|
|
|
Gannet
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/02/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
|
MP
|
|
|
Pintail
|
12
|
Hunterston
|
Males
|
MP
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMc
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/02/17
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
|
MH
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
11
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
42
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Twite
|
10
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
13
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
11
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
15
|
Knockshinnoch-Dalmaca
|
|
EF
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
6
|
Kilmaurs
|
In
private garden
|
RT
|
|
|
Black
Guillemot
|
23
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Knot
|
35
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
MP
|
|
|
Redshank
|
126
|
Bogside
|
|
MP
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/02/17
|
Nuthatch
|
pr
|
Dean
Castle Country Park
|
|
AF
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Heads
of Ayr
|
|
RW
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Heads
of Ayr
|
|
RW
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/02/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
2
|
Irvine
Bay
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
7
|
Irvine
Bay
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Gannet
|
3
|
Irvine
Bay
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Short-eared
Owl
|
1
|
Airds
Moss
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/02/17
|
Whooper
Swan
|
13
|
New
Cumnock
|
Meikle
Westland
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/02/17
|
Shore
Lark
|
1
|
New
Cumnock
|
Garleffan
opencast
|
SG
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Noddsdale
Water,
Largs
|
At
mouth of burn
|
BG
|
|
|
Velvet
Scoter
|
4
|
Barassie
|
Off
the north end
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/02/17
|
Waxwing
|
5
|
Ayr
|
Belleisle
Drive
|
MH
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
1st-w
on Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Near
mouth of river
|
RGV
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/02/17
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Meigle
Bay, Skelmorlie
|
2nd-w
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Adult
|
BG
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Stevenston
|
|
BG
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
60
|
Ardeer/Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
13
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
6
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
82
|
Ardeer/Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Scaup
|
31
|
Auchenharvie
pond
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/02/17
|
Waxwing
|
11
|
Kilwinning
|
David's
Crescent
|
BG
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
1st-w
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Black
Guillemot
|
40+
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Eider
|
100+
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
PMcE
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
9
|
Fairlie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
3
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
100
|
Fairlie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Hunterston
Castle
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/02/17
|
Waxwing
|
13
|
Kilwinning
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
92
|
Fairlie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
6
|
Fairlie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/02/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
1st-w
on Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/02/17
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
|
BG
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
20+
|
Hunterston
|
Road
to power station
|
AH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
20+
|
Hunterston
|
Road
to power station
|
AH
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Adult
|
BG
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
3
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Goosander
|
2
|
Rozelle
|
|
DT
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
DT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/02/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
DG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/02/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
1st-w
on Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
12
|
Broomhill
fishery
|
|
EF
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/02/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan
Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
11
|
Drybridge
|
Inc
2 juveniles
|
JA/BA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/02/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan
Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Dalmilling,
Ayr
|
On
River Ayr & golf course
|
JI
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
|
BG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
January
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30/01/17
|
!
American
Wigeon
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
Male
at Southannan
Sands
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
CO
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
1500
|
Hunterston
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Pintail
|
2
|
Hunterston
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Gadwall
|
3
|
Hunterston
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Hunterston
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
15
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
TC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29/01/17
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
|
RGV
|
|
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke-Heads of Ayr
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke-Heads of Ayr
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
1
|
Greenan
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
1
|
New
Farm, Kilmarnock
|
|
SI
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27/01/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
4
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
1200+
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Teal
|
200
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26/01/17
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
|
TR/SB
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Annick
Water, Irvine
|
B7081/Annick
Road-hotel
|
AS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/01/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
1st-w
|
MH
|
|
|
Eider
|
806
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23/01/17
|
Golden
Eagle
|
1
|
Upper
Glenmuir
|
|
KB
|
|
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
1st-w
on Meadowhead pit
|
BG
|
|
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
on north side
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Broadwood,
Annbank
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Dipper
|
pr
|
Kilmarnock
Water
|
Singing
beside Sandbed St
|
AM
|
|
|
Goosander
|
m
|
Kilmarnock
Water
|
Flew
upstream, Sandbed St
|
AM
|
|
|
Short-eared
Owl
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Peregrine
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Twite
|
6
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22/01/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
1st-w
|
GB
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
4
|
Troon
harbour
|
Ballast
Bank
|
GB
|
|
|
Short-eared
Owl
|
2
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Long-eared
Owl
|
2
|
Shewalton
Woods
|
Calling
|
BDK
|
|
|
Barn
Owl
|
2
|
Shewalton
Woods
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Tawny
Owl
|
2
|
Shewalton
Woods
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
21/01/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
1st-w
|
DGr
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Present
since 4-Dec
|
AW
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
2
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
|
MH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20/01/17
|
Little
Gull
|
1
|
Noddsdale
Water, Largs
|
Adult
at burn mourth
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
on north side
|
DGr
|
|
|
Yellow-legged
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
Adult
on beach
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Stevenston
|
Adult
on beach
|
RHH
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
4
|
Barassie
|
Adults
on beach
|
BDK
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
6
|
North
Inch, Seamill
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Stevenston
LNR
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
36
|
Stevenston
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
5
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
16
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19/01/17
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
Female/1st-w
on north side
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Hunterston
Sands
|
Present
since 4-Dec
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
2
|
Barassie
|
2
ads
|
BDK
|
|
|
Common
Gull
|
3785
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Bar-tailed
Godwit
|
2
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Pintail
|
pr
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Gadwall
|
pr
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18/01/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Shewalton
|
1st-w
on Meadowhead pit
|
BDK
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
4
|
Barassie
|
3
ads + 2nd-w
|
BDK
|
|
|
Common
Gull
|
3500
|
Barassie
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Black
Redstart
|
1
|
Deil's
Dyke, Greenan
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
11
|
Bogside/Garnock
estuary
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17/01/17
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
2
|
Doonfoot
|
Adults
|
SB
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/01/17
|
Glaucous
Gull
|
1
|
Maidens
|
Juvenile
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
16
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Hen
Harrier
|
1
|
Riccarton
Moss, Kilmarnock
|
Male
|
AM
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Riccarton
Moss, Kilmarnock
|
|
AM
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
30+
|
Riccarton
Moss, Kilmarnock
|
|
AM
|
|
|
Shelduck
|
1
|
Riccarton
Moss, Kilmarnock
|
|
AM
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
45
|
Ballast
Bank, Troon
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Knot
|
60
|
Ballast
Bank, Troon
|
|
TC
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Present
since 4-Dec
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
6
|
Fairlie
|
|
AMcK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15/01/17
|
Grey
Plover
|
6
|
Ardeer
beach
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
18
|
Outer
Nebock Rocks
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14/01/17
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Irvine
Bay
|
Male
|
ST
|
|
|
Short-eared
Owl
|
2
|
Bogside
|
old
racecourse
|
ST
|
|
|
Water
Rail
|
3
|
Trabboch
|
|
DGr
|
|
|
Pintail
|
2
|
Trabboch
|
Female
|
DGr
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
2
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
4
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Red-throated
Diver
|
9
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Eider
|
102
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
26
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Turnstone
|
31
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Dunlin
|
144
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Curlew
|
120
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Oystercatcher
|
176
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
21
|
North
Mains farm
|
Crossraguel
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Also
at Clydeport
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
3
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
SC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13/01/17
|
Waxwing
|
8
|
Fenwick
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Goosander
|
2
|
Kilmarnock
|
Sandbed
Street
|
AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12/01/17
|
Knot
|
8
|
Maidens
|
pale-bellied hrota
|
RHH
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
16
|
Maidens
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11/01/17
|
Black-throated
Diver
|
1
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10/01/17
|
Little
Auk
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
09/01/17
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Goosander
|
14
|
Rozelle
|
|
JR/RGV
|
|
|
Brent
Goose
|
16
|
Maidens
|
|
RGV/RHH
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
08/01/17
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
21
|
Burton
Farm, Doonfoot
|
|
DGi
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
07/01/17
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Heads
of Ayr
|
Craig
Tara sewage plant
|
RHH
|
|
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Slaphouse
Burn mouth
|
BG
|
|
|
Great
Northern Diver
|
5
|
Turnberry
Bay
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TR
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RS
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RGV
|
|
|
Black
Guillemot
|
27
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
5
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Knot
|
40
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Twite
|
9
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
2
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
SC
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
06/01/17
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Bogside
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Merlin
|
1
|
Redwrae/Fail
|
Male
|
MH
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
4
|
Nith
Valley
|
Probably
albifrons
|
MH
|
|
|
Barnacle
Goose
|
1
|
Nith
Valley
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
18
|
Nith
Valley
|
|
MH
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
05/01/17
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Slaphouse
Burn mouth
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
TR
|
|
|
Hen
Harrier
|
2
|
Bogside,
Irvine
|
Around
old race course
|
DJ/BDK
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
1
|
Martnaham
Loch
|
flavirostris
Sandhill Farm
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
6
|
Shewalton
|
Oldhall
ponds
|
JD
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
04/01/17
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Meikle
Craigs
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
Slaphouse
Burn mouth
|
BG
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Southannan
Sands
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Short-eared
Owl
|
2
|
Bogside,
Irvine
|
Around
old race course
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pintail
|
3
|
Hunterston
area
|
|
MMcG
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
50
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour mouth
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
11
|
Bogside/Garnock
estuary
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
03/01/17
|
Snow
Bunting
|
7
|
Pow
Burn
|
Flew
north
|
BDK
|
|
|
Brambling
|
3
|
Culzean
|
In
deer enclosures
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Fairlie
|
Present
since 4-Dec
|
AMcK
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Heads
of Ayr
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Mediterranean
Gull
|
1
|
Barassie
|
2nd-w
|
BDK
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
11
|
Bogside-Garnock
Estuary
|
|
JMcP
|
|
|
Merlin
|
1
|
Loans
|
Female
|
RHH
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
6
|
Redwrae/Fail
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Common
Scoter
|
27
|
Doonfoot
|
Flew
south
|
RHH
|
|
|
White-fronted
Goose
|
3
|
Low
Coylton
|
flavirostris
|
BG
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
10
|
Ardeer
beach
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Long-tailed
Duck
|
2
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
BT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
02/01/17
|
Waxwing
|
12
|
Muirhead,
Troon
|
East
end of North Drive
|
FSS
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
1
|
Fenwick
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Barassie
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Doonfoot
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
218
|
Loans
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Woodcock
|
1
|
Dreghorn
pit bing
|
Holmsford
Br-Long Drive
|
FSS
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
6
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Sanderling
|
2
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Chiffchaff
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Kingfisher
|
1
|
Irvine
harbour
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Scaup
|
20
|
Auchenharvie
GC pond
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Grey
Plover
|
11
|
Bogside-Garnock
Estuary
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
3
|
Bogside-Garnock
Estuary
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
3
|
Bogside-Garnock
Estuary
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Knot
|
13
|
Troon
harbour
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Purple
Sandpiper
|
5
|
Stevenston
Point
|
|
AR
|
|
|
Grey
Partridge
|
pr
|
Capringstone
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Wigeon
|
376
|
Capringstone
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
01/01/17
|
Jack
Snipe
|
1
|
Dreghorn
pit bing
|
Holmsford
Br-Long Drive
|
FSS
|
|
|
Jack
Snipe
|
2
|
Dundonald
Camp
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Garnock
Floods
|
|
SI
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Heads
of Ayr
|
Craig
Tara side
|
RHH
|
|
|
Little
Egret
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
6
|
Muirhead,
Troon
|
East
end of North Drive
|
BDK
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
18
|
Ayr,
Castlehill
Woods
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
3
|
Ayr,
Hilltop
Place
|
|
TS/GS
|
|
|
Waxwing
|
50
|
Prestwick
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Water
Pipit
|
1
|
Pow
Burn
|
|
BT
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
4
|
Heads
of Ayr
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
15
|
High
Greenan
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Pink-footed
Goose
|
40
|
Lyttleton
Farm, Maybole
|
|
RHH
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
2
|
Loans
|
|
BDK
|
|
|
Siskin
|
35+
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Grey
Partridge
|
pr
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Yellowhammer
|
22
|
Knockentiber-Springside
|
disused
railway line
|
FSS
|
|
|
Tree
Sparrow
|
2
|
Southhook
Farm
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Skylark
|
180
|
Southhook
Farm
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Whooper
Swan
|
1
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Greenshank
|
2
|
Capringstone
|
|
FSS
|
|
|
Red-breasted
Merganser
|
pr
|
Dreghorn,
River Irvine
|
Holmsford
Bridge-GSK
|
FSS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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