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Sightings, news and chatter on Caithness birding | #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛We are receiving increased reports of dead auks, including Puffins, particularly in North East Scotland. It's quick and easy to report any dead or sick birds you find through the 'Deceased bird' function on the home page of the BirdTrack app Photo: Puffin by Richard Selman / BTO #ukbirding
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Third juvenile Iceland Gull from our house in two days. Today’s was a particularly dark individual #PWC2026 #CaithnessBirds
- Green-winged Teal at St John’s Pool this morning, and two juvenile Iceland Gulls at Nybster #CaithnessBirds
- GPS tracked Icelandic Greylag Goose movements tracker link below. Greylags ‘Alastair’ and ‘Willem’ are currently in Caithness arcgis.stofa.is/portal/apps/... #CaithnessBirds
- 6 Tundra Bean Geese at Huna, Water Pipit and Glaucous Gull in Dunnet Bay, Iceland Gull in Scrabster/Thurso today. Also a few Barnacle Geese are new in #CaithnessBirds
- Juv Glaucous Gull still in Dunnet Bay and Juv Iceland Gull at Harrow Harbour today #CaithnessBirds
- Water Pipit in Dunnet Dunes/outflow this weekend #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛64 species on our 25 km cycle around NE Cairthness yesterday, with Great-spotted Woodpecker and Tree Sparrow good additions to the 10 km #PWC2026 list. The only photo I took was @rob-hughes-birder.bsky.social admiring his cake! #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛A very enjoyable @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count at Dunnet Bay this morning with my first Glaucous Gulls of the year - plus a smart Water Pipit was a great bonus! #CaithnessBirds
- Water Pipit (2nd Caithness record), 2 Glaucous Gulls and 3 Velvet Scoters in Dunnet Bay; 3 Taiga Bean Geese Loch Heilen/Greenland; 2 GW Egrets and 90+ Greenland WF Geese on Loch of Mey today #CaithnessBirds
- Juv Iceland Gulls in Wick harbour and south past Nybster today. Also a Great White Egret still on St John’s Loch #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Juv Iceland Gull and three Little Gulls in Freswick Bay at lunchtime today #PWC2026 #CaithnessBirds
- 9 Snow Buntings and 2 Black-throated Divers at Nybster today #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛After an absence last year, White-tailed Eagle flying past our house was a welcome #PWC2026 tick #CaithnessBirds with @ninaohanlon.bsky.social
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Happy New Year and good luck to everyone who is out #birding, making a start to their #PWC2026 totals this morning! If you have not yet signed up then use this link to do so! - docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Remember to keep us updated on your finds by using the #Patchbirding and #PWC2026 tags!
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Christmas can be an expensive time of year, so how about something for free? The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
- Lone Waxwing in a private garden in Reay today #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛The Taiga Bean Goose at Loch Heilen was ringed in E. Finland in July 2020. Usually wintering in S. Sweden, it was sighted in Norway (26th Sept) before Caithness. Full details can be found here submit.cr-birding.org/animals/1417... #CaithnessBirds
- 16 Taiga Bean Geese at Loch Heilen on my @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count today. One of which looks to have been neck collared in Finland! Will share its history when it comes through #CaithnessBirds
- Particularly pale mantled Hooded Crow with our typically darker grey mantled local Hooded Crows (and Carrions) in Dunnet Bay over the weekend #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛16 Taiga Bean Geese at Loch Heilen on my @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count today. One of which looks to have been neck collared in Finland! Will share its history when it comes through #CaithnessBirds
- Adult Bonaparte’s Gull still in Dunnet Bay this afternoon plus Smew on Scarmclate and four Ring-necked Ducks on Watten yesterday #CaithnessBirds
- Firecrests at John O’Groats, Auckengill and Berriedale today. Also Siberian Lesser Whitethroat and Mealy Redpoll at Auckengill, and a Yellow-browed Warbler at Dunnet. Odd movement of 8 Long-tailed Tits flying over John O’Groats too #CaithnessBirds
- Just the 9th record of Firecrest in Caithness
- Gorgeous Firecrest at John O'Groats this morning 🧡 🔥 #CaithnessBirds 📸 @rob-hughes-birder.bsky.social
- Yellow-browed Warbler at Noss, 1st w Little Gull in Freswick Bay, 4 Little Auks north past Nybster, and a Little Egret and 3 Great White Egrets on Loch of Mey today #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛This Treecreeper at John O’Groats this morning was #PWC2025 #patchgold Looked a bit frosty in the dull light #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Nicely marked Ring Ouzel at John O’Groats football pitch this morning. Also Hawfinch, 2 Yellow-browed Warblers, 2 Siberian Chiffchaffs, Woodcock and 3 Crossbills. Quite a few commoner migrants too #CaithnessBirds #PWC2025
- Migrant Wren at John O’Groats being chased off by the darker local birds. The first photo shows the two in a bramble bush #CaithnessBirds
- Lots of migrant Robins in today, this one getting a bit toasty in the sun #CaithnessBirds
- Odd plumages, particularly small Ringed Plover at Freswick this afternoon #CaithnessBirds
- Four Ring-necked Ducks on Wester Loch and 2 adult Pomarine Skuas north past Nybster today #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Three Bonaparte’s Gulls still in Dunnet Bay today, also a new Ring-necked Duck on Wester Loch #CaithnessBirds
- Movement of Tree Sparrows today, with a flock of 17 at John O’Groats with a NW type Redpoll. Greenland Wheatear at Freswick. 3 Brent Geese in Dunnet Bay. Now three Ring-necked Ducks on Wester Loch and the Bonaparte’s Gulls are still in Dunnet Bay #CaithnessBirds
- Three Bonaparte’s Gulls still in Dunnet Bay this morning (adult and two 1st winters) #CaithnessBirds @birdguides.bsky.social
- Ended up being at least four Bonaparte’s Gulls with another adult seen this afternoon!!!! Another Mediterranean Gull there too. Ring-necked Duck also still on Wester Loch #CaithnessBirds @birdguides.bsky.social
- We had three Bonaparte’s Gulls (ad and two 1st w’s) in Dunnet Bay this morning!!! Also a Juv Sabine’s Gull, Juv Little Gull, 1st w Mediterranean Gull and a Curlew Sandpiper with @ninaohanlon.bsky.social #CaithnessBirds
- Two 1st W Bonaparte’s Gulls off Castlehill at the moment #CaithnessBirds @birdguides.bsky.social
- Foraging flock of 170+ Sooty Shearwaters off Nybster with 2,400+ Kittiwakes this afternoon!!! Also at least one Sabine’s Gull, 2 Manxies, 2 Common Terns and 5 Arctic Skuas, with large numbers of Gannets and Auks foraging too. #CaithnessBirds
- A Glossy Ibis flew NE over Hilliclay this morning #CaithnessBirds
- Juv Sabine's Gull off North Head, Wick with the thousands of Kitts. Also 2 juv Long-tailed Skuas, 2+ Stormies and a few Manx. Plus Ring-necked Duck still on Wester Loch this morning. Couple of Magpies on the move too #CaithnessBirds
- Juv Sabine’s Gull and Arctic Skua off Nybster and three Curlew Sandpipers in Dunnet Bay today. Movement of Whooper Swans continues and there is still the odd Swallow around #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Woodpigeon and its chick managed to cling on through Storm Amy, in Wick #CaithnessBirds
- Hundreds of Barnacle Geese and Whooper Swans continue to head through Caithness today #CaithnessBirds
- Firecrest and Yellow-browed Warbler at Nucleus, Long-tailed Skua and 4 Sooty Shearwater off Wick, and Sabine’s Gull and Pomarine Skua off Nybster was the best sightings from today #CaithnessBirds
- Long-tailed Skua (Juv), Little Gull (Juv), Sooty Shearwater, distant Storm Petrel sp, 106 Barnacle Goose and 49 Whooper Swans past Nybster this morning #CaithnessBirds
- Sabine’s Gull and two Juv Long-tailed Skuas in Dunnet Bay this morning plus a Storm Petrel and three Sooty Shearwaters past Wick #CaithnessBirds
- Ring-necked Ducks still on Wester (2), Scarmclate (2), and Watten (1). All drakes.
- Septembers Caithness bird sightings summary link #CaithnessBirds www.facebook.com/share/p/1KH4...
- 1st w Bonaparte’s Gull at Castlehill and Ring-necked Ducks still on Wester Loch today #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Red-breasted Flycatcher still around, near John O’Groats this morning #CaithnessBirds
- 3 ‘Migrating’ House Sparrows yesterday. Might not have come from far but the first we have seen in JOG quarry. If they were elsewhere in the county the movement would likely have gone unnoticed #CaithnessBirds
- Snow Bunting on Dunnet beach early afternoon #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Red-flanked Bluetail, Red-breasted Flycatcher, 2 Yellow-browed Warbler and a Long-eared Owl from a quick run around JOG this morning, though nothing at Freswick or Noss #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Glossy Ibis flew down the Wick river this morning and landed near the just outside town. 10th record for Caithness. Also prob American Wigeon, Little Stint and Curlew Sandpiper on the river #CaithnessBirds
- Glossy Ibis, poss American Wigeon, Little Stint and Curlew Sandpiper on Wick river this morning, all near the town #CaithnessBirds
- Kingfisher in Thurso this evening seen downstream from ‘one of the bridges’ #CaithnessBirds
- Four Little Gulls in Dunnet Bay this morning #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Leach’s Petrel and Black Tern still in Dunnet Bay this morning #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Terrible photo of a Wryneck at John O’Groats this morning but a useful #PWC2025 tick with @ninaohanlon.bsky.social #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Ruff and Mergansers Wick River this afternoon. @caithnessbirds.bsky.social #birds #caithness #scotland
- 2 adult Sabine’s Gulls, Grey Phalarope, Juv Little Gull, 4 Sooty Shearwater, 3 Manx Shearwater and 6+ Arctic Skua off Nybster this afternoon #CaithnessBirds
- Spotted Flycatcher at John O’Groats this afternoon plus a Whinchat and Lesser Whitethroat #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛A Merlin and Black Darter at Noss Head today #birds #bugs #insects #migration @caithnessbirds.bsky.social
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛A gorgeous pre-work @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count this morning, lots of waders including at least 7 Curlew Sandpipers 💙 #CaithnessBirds
- A Spotted Redshank, 7+ Curlew Sandpipers and 8 Bar-tailed Godwits in Dunnet Bay and a Green Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank and 4 Ruff at Loch Heilen this morning #CaithnessBirds
- Black-winged Pratincole still present at Brawlbin, currently with the Lapwing flock on the loch. Curlew Sandpiper still at Freswick this morning too #CaithnessBirds
- Hawking and hanging around with the Lapwing/Golden Plover flock at Brawlbin this afternoon. Juv Curlew Sandpiper also on Loch Calder
- Amazing views of the hawking Black-winged Pratincole at Brawlbin this afternoon. Great find by @anguscroudace.bsky.social #CaithnessBirds
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛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? 🤔
- Reposted by Caithness Birds 🐦⬛Juv Curlew Sandpiper on Freswick beach this morning #CaithnessBirds
- Caithness bird sightings summary for August #CaithnessBirds www.facebook.com/share/p/18kX...
- Sabine’s Gull, Storm Petrel, 8 Sooty Shearwater, Arctic Skua and 3 Great Skua off Nybster this afternoon/evening #CaithnessBirds
- Little Gull feeding off Nybster this afternoon with a Kittiwake flock #CaithnessBirds
- At least three Great Shearwaters past Nybster this afternoon/evening plus three Sooty Shearwaters #CaithnessBirds
- Balearic Shearwater north past Nybster at 14:00 #CaithnessBirds
- Long-tailed Skua north at 18:30 too
- Cory’s Shearwater just flown north past Nybster, also three Sooty Shearwaters #CaithnessBirds
