Sightings April 2007

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 Ayrshire Species List indicates which species requires submission of a sightings form to be considered by the relevant committee. The list of this month's 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
1 to 18	Ayr	Adult Iceland Gull
4 to 7	Culzean	Male Mandarin Duck
1 to 25	Maidens	Up to 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese
12 to 26	Irvine	1st Winter Glaucous Gull
19 to 27	Blairbowie	1-21 Black-tailed Godwits
24 to 26	Lochlea	1-22 Black-tailed Godwits

Other Sightings

Dates	Location	Sighting
1	Maidens	Water Pipit, 1st Winter Mediterranean Gull
2	Ness Glen	Nuthatch
3	Ardeer Quarry	Swallow
	Ballantrae	Swallow
4	Saltcoats	34 Scaup
	Irvine	Willow Warbler
6	Maidens	Sandwich Terns
	Capringstone	2 White Wagtails
8	Martnaham Loch	3 Shoveler, 7 Whooper Swans
	Ardrossan-Arran	6 Manx Shearwaters
9	Girvan	2 1st Winter Mediterranean Gulls
	Largs	Adult Little Gull
	Maidens	Common Sandpiper
	Capringstone	1 Whimbrel
10	North Ayrshire	Sedge Warbler
12	Knockentiber	Male Goshawk
	Garnock Estuary	1 Bewick’s Swan
	Shalloch On Minnoch	Ring Ouzel
13	Garnock ICI	Greenshank
	Balkenna	1st year Little Gull, male Gadwall, Grasshopper Warbler, 9 Red-throated Divers, 20 Black-throated Divers, 5 Great Northern Divers
	Kilmarnock	Woodcock
	Dreghorn	2 House Martins
	Kilbirnie	2 House Martins
	Saltcoats	20+ Manx Shearwaters
14	Loch Nahinee	Pair Willow Tits
	Garnock ICI	Male Gadwall
15	Capringstone	Cuckoo
17	Irvine	Osprey
18	Maidens	46 White Wagtails, 5 Sandwich Terns
	Bogside	Osprey
	Balkenna	Male Gadwall
	Loch Martle	Osprey
19	Drybridge	Possible Sea Eagle flying over
	Stevenston Point	1 Whimbrel
20	Barassie	9 Common Scoters
21	Dundonald	Common and Lesser Whitethroat
	Bracken Bay	Lesser Whitethroat
	Heads Of Ayr	5 Whimbrel, 75 White Wagtails
	Doonfoot	2 Knot, 60 Turnstone, Grasshopper Warler, 2 Common Sandpipers
	Saltcoats	8 Whimbrel
22	Powburn	5 Grasshopper Warblers
	Turnberry Point	2 Pomarine Skuas, 3 Great Skuas, Great Northern Diver
	Glen Afton	Redstart, Sedge Warbler
23	Cumnock	Swift
24	Trabboch Loch	Sedge Warbler, Water Rail
	Powburn	2 Grasshopper Warblers, 4 pairs Stonechat
	Ayr	Swift
25	Lochlea	Juvenile Iceland Gull, 2 Whimbrel
	Turnberry Point	1 Pomarine Skua, Little Tern, 2 Puffin, 23 Arctic Terns, 2 Whimbrel, 20 Manx Shearwaters.
	Saltcoats	1 Arctic Skua, 1 Adult Little Gull.
	Maidens	20+ White Wagtails
	Blairbowie	Pair Gadwall
	Martnaham Loch	20 Black-tailed Godwits, 7 Swifts, 9 Goldeneye
	Straiton	350 Golden Plover
	Waterside	Cuckoo
26	Bogside	3 Whimbrel, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, male Gadwall
	Irvine	Great Northern Diver
	Lendalfoot	Juvenile Glaucous Gull
	Bardarroch Farm	3 Redstarts
	Barrhill	Whinchat
27	Finnarts Bay	Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 2 Grasshopper Warblers
28	Kerelaw Castle	Wood Warbler
	Greenan	Tree Pipit
29	Martnaham Loch	Wood Sandpiper
	Glengennet	3 Redstarts, 5 Tree Pipits, Garden Warbler, Merlin
30	Ness Glen	Redstart, Tree Pipit, Common Sandpiper, Blackcap

Acknowledgements

M Hollinsworth, A Dick, J Thomson, R Kelly, S McMahon, I Hamlin, A Hogg, K Waite, J Towill, J McGrady, M Howes, T Scott, T Cameron, T Reid, D Vernon, V Firminger, R Hissett, A Barker, N and C Gregory, F Simpson, Birdline Scotland, BirdGuides, Ayrshire-birding.