Scotland Birding Trip Summary May 2014
Our birding trip to Scotland took in visits to Loch of the Lowes and Loch Garten as well as the fours days birding in and around Grantown-on-Spey and visits after that to the Ythan Estuary at Newburgh and RSPB Fowlsheugh. In total we saw 113 bird species and added six new life ticks to our UK list. These were Black-throated Diver, Slavonian Grebe, Ptarmigan, Dotterel, King Eider and, some may think oddly, our first Little Stint. We added twenty-four birds to our year list which, after the holiday, stood at 168 species. Out UK life list now stands at 227 species. Still a long way to go but all the more reason to get out there and see what we can.