Sightings December 2006

This table below lists the sightings of birds in Ayrshire over this month compiled from various sources. This is principally for a historical record and does not imply that a particular sightings has been accepted by the relevant authorities. The list of contributors is given at the foot of the table.

For details on many of the locations mentioned in the sightings please refer to our Where to Watch Birds in Ayrshire guides.

List compiled by Mike Howes and edited by Kevin Waite

Long Stayers

Dates	Location	Sighting
All	Ayr	Adult Iceland Gull
	Kileekie	Whooper Swan Maximum 33, Greylag Goose Maximum 240
	Loans	Greylag Goose Maximum 275
2-4	Barassie	3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese
6-26	Loans	1 Greenland White-fronted Goose
6-11	Troon	1 Long-tailed Duck
8-31	Maidens	Water Pipit
13-15	Greenan/Ayr	Juvenile Ivory Gull
29-30	Barassie	2nd Winter Mediterranean Gull
23-30	Stevenston	Whooper Swan Maximum 15

Other Sightings

Dates	Location	Sighting
2	Turnberry Point	Manx Shearwater
3	Barassie	1st Winter Little Gull
	Irvine Harbour	1st Winter Little Gull
	Stevenston Point	Adult and 1st Winter Little Gull
	Turnberry Point	2 Leach’s Petrel
	Kay Park Kilmarnock	8 Goosander
4	Kilbirnie Loch	Possible Leach’s Petrel
	Stevenston Point	1 Leach’s Petrel
	Troon	6 Leach’s Petrel
	Irvine Harbour	4-5 Leach’s Petrel
5	Saltcoats	7 Leach’s Petrels
	Stevenston Point	1 Leach’s Petrel
	Turnberry Point	4-5 Leach’s Petrels, 20 Red-throated Divers, 3 Black-throated Divers, 3 Great Northern Divers
6	Stevenston Point	1 Leach’s Petrel
	Troon	Grey Phalarope, Little Auk, Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck
	Lochlea	29 Black-tailed Godwits, 1 Common Crossbill
	Hunterston	Pair Gadwall, 3 Pintail
7	Saltcoats	Leach’s Petrel
	Ayr	Adult Mediterranean Gull
	Stevenston Point	1st Winter Little Gull
	Turnberry Point	Leach’s Petrel, Little Auk
8	Girvan	6 Ravens, Sanderling
9	Fairlie	Great Northern Diver
	Hunterston	9 Greenshank, 2 Pintail, 2 Scaup
	Ardrossan - Farland Head	Greenshank, 3 Purple Sandpipers
	Seamill	Jack Snipe
	Ballantrae	8 Little Auks, Juvenile Sabines Gull, 1 Leach’s Petrel, 5 Puffin, 2 Pomarine Skuas
	Turnberry Point	4 Red-throated Divers, 1 Great Skua, 12 Arctic Skuas, 1 Pomarine Skua, 1 Black-throated Diver
	Blairbowie	5 Whooper Swans
10	Troon	1st Winter Iceland Gull, Leach’s Petrel
	Loans	Goshawk
11	Saltcoats	Little Auk
	Turnberry Point	1 Little Auk, 3 Red-throated Divers, 2 Black-throated Divers, 1 Great Northern Diver
12	Troon	Adult Sabines Gull, 7 Leach’s Petrels
13	Troon	Little Auk, 2 Male Velvet Scoter
	Stevenston Point	1 Storm Petrel
14	Saltcoats	Little Auk
15	Doonfoot	1st Winter Mediterranean Gull, 2 Greenshank
	Shewalton	Immature Iceland Gull
16	Doonfoot	Adult Iceland Gull, Mediterranean Gull
	Bogton Loch	26 Whooper Swans, 15 Greylag Geese, 21 Goldeneye
	Martnaham Loch	6 Whooper Swans, 60 Greylag Geese
17	Garnock ICI	9 Whooper Swans, 10 Greenshanks
	Stevenston	2 Blackcaps
	Barassie	Adult Mediterranean Gull, 54 Scaup
21	Irvine	Blackcap
	Maidens	4 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 1 Knot, 6 Purple Sandpipers
22	Kennedys Pass - Lendalfoot	20 Great Northern Divers, 10 Black-throated Divers, 4 Red-throated Divers
	Ardeer	Chiffchaff
	Troon	1st Winter Iceland Gull, 65 Scaup
23	Stevenston Point	2nd Winter Mediterranean Gull
	Doonfoot	3 Great Northern Divers, 2 Black-throated Divers, 2 Red-throated Divers
	Troon	65 Scaup
24	Ardeer Fen	Water Rail
	Garnock Ardeer	Green Sandpiper
	Loans	Juvenile Ivory Gull
25	Ayr	65 Scaup
27	Ardeer Fen	Pair Pintail, Water Rail, Chiffchaff, 50 Siskin
	Stevenston Point	2nd Winter Mediterranean Gull
	Doonfoot	3 Greenshank
28	Sorn - Muirkirk	2 Hen Harrier, 1 Black Grouse
	Ardeer Fen	Chiffchaff
29	Ayr	Adult Iceland Gull, 2nd Winter Ring-billed Gull, Adult Mediterranean Gull
30	Ayr	Adult Mediterranean Gull
	Stevenston LNR	9 Jack Snipe, 75+ Common Snipe

Acknowledgements

R Wagner,R White, A Hogg, J McGrady, R Kelly, A McKintosh, M McGinty, J Woods, J Woods, K Waite, T Cameron, M Howes, S McMahon, I Hamlin, Birdline Scotland, Bird Guides.

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