Angus Croudace
Cairngorms based ornithologist most interested in migration and upland ecosystems.
- Happy to be corrected but bill&legs point me towards Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii here.. Found deceased on Playa de Cofete, Fuerteventura on 21st November 2025. Can anyone help link me up with local recorder who it is likely of interest to? Or is Ebird best? @birdguides.bsky.social
- Great day counts of 14 Ring Ouzel, 11 Jack Snipe and 11 Firecrest this week @lundybirds.bsky.social. Olive-backed Pipit found by Andy Jayne was very nice. Found a juv Rosy Starling on 10th. Island scarcity also strikes again - my flyover Goosander becomes 3rd island record, rarer than OBP here 😅
- Stoked to find a Dusky Warbler in the field on census @lundybirds.bsky.social I followed it up the valley after being drawn to a percussive tacking like call that wasn't a Blackcap in the overgrown Millcombe Pond. It then quickly ended up in a net! @birdguides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
- Nice @lundybirds.bsky.social recently. Also chuffed to have used short scrappy sound recordings to substantiate records of a fleeting, unseen Ortolan Bunting & the island's first Curlew Sandpiper since 2004 as it went south over the plateau, which had to be on the cards for this autumn...
- Grey-Cheeked Thrush trapped and ringed @lundybirds.bsky.social this morning. @birdguides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
- A lovely start to my 4th autumn @lundybirds.bsky.social with the long staying Western Bonelli's Warbler, lovely views of Buff-breasted Sandpiper, juv Hobby following big hirundine passage and the now expected Wrynecks... Plenty Firecrest also including 10+ today, always a treat for me #UKbirding
- Pratincole sp. associating with Lapwings in SW corner of Loch Calder @caithnessbirds.bsky.social @rob-hughes-birder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social Had to dash off, last seen around 2pm flying around the Loch. Slim white trailing edge, but enough for a Collared? 🤔
- Roosting with Lapwings in muddy fields around the T junction ND 07395 57791, then flew to Loch just north of Brawlbin Farm around 1400.
- Living the dream working on the Cairngorm Plateau as part of the 2025 Montane Bird Survey. It was also very saddening - walking for days over swathes of beautiful habitat to find no Dotterel where there were once many... #BirdingScotland
