Week 36

3 – 9 September 2025

During my big year, I will update my blog most weeks. This is the thirty-sixth week’s recap. The number next to the day indicates my Scottish year list at the end of that day. Birds written in italics indicate year ticks.

September 7 - Day 250: 194

Since my dad was away for a business meeting in Oxford for the week, the only birding I could do was a seawatch at Girdleness on Sunday. It was quite windy (gusts 36 mph/57 km/h) and there was some rain, too. In Greyhope Bay, I watched two dark morph Arctic Skuas drifting south. After a short walk, I sat down at the foghorn and began seawatching. As well as the many Gannets and Kittiwakes, I had a couple of Teal fly South and 3 Wigeon. The counts for each species are below and in taxonomic order:

Wigeon 3 S

Teal 2 S

Curlew 2 S

Arctic Skua 2 S

Great Skua 1 S

Puffin 1 N

Guillemot 5 S

Kittiwake Mostly N

Great Black-backed Gull 1 S

Arctic Tern 5 S

Common Tern 15 S

Red-throated Diver 5 S