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Summary of Scottish Birding 4th – 12th October 2013

Summary of Scottish Birding 4th – 12th October 2013

Our Scottish holiday took in a quick stopover at Montrose Basin, a visit to Loch of Strathbeg and environs and on our return a stopover at WWT Caerlaverock. In between we had three great days of birding in the Highlands in Inverness-shire, Ross and Cromarty and Moray. Over all the sites we saw a minimum of 84 species of bird as well as Common Seal, Red and Roe Deer, Red and Grey Squirrels and Stoat. This gave us three more birds for our life list, Crested Tit, Capercaillie and Scaup. We also added thirteen birds to our UK year list.

Our full bird list was as follows

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