Friday, August 22, 2014

Friday, August 08, 2014

Kindrogan, Perthshire

I've uploaded a trip report from my annual field course trip to Kindrogan in Perthshire. This year the Green Woodpeckers remained, with likely a second pair nearby, and Goshawk was observed again. Other highlights included Goosander, Golden Eagle, Woodcock, Tree Pipit, Dipper, Redstart, Ring Ouzel, Wood Warbler, Pied Flycatcher and Common Crossbill.

www.fssbirding.org.uk/kindrogantrip2014.htm





Curlew  Numenius arquata
Glen BrerachanPerthshireScotland  56° 44' 40.5" N  03° 38' 25.5" W  12 June 2012

Bubbling song uttered during display flight over heather moorland, with two birds from 20 secs.


Tree Pipit  Anthus trivialis
Kindrogan Field CentrePerthshireScotland  56° 44' 45.8" N  03° 32' 49.7" W  11 June 2014

Perched song composed of a series of slow trills, the main phrase gradually decreasing in frequency. Flight song during parachuting display composed of a more complicated series of slow and rapid trills and more musical slurred elements delivered in discrete phrases. Note the distinctive down-slurred element from 8.1 to 5.7 kHz between 77.1 and 77.9 secs. Singing from a regenerating clear-fell area of Sitka Spruce in Kindrogan Hill.

Goosander  Mergus merganser
Glen BrerachanPerthshireScotland  56° 45' 21.5" N  03° 36' 32.9" W  12 June 2014 

Calls from a female in flight, circling potential breeding area.

Wood Warbler  Phylloscopus sibilatrix
KindroganPerthshireScotland  56° 45' 08.3" N  03° 33' 56.7" W  11 June 2014 

Two song types: more common trill (84% of songs in this bird), and less common tew-tew-tew (16%). Common song composed of distinctive accelerating trill, starting with hesitant elements (countable by ear), gradually decreasing in frequency to a rapid finish (uncountable to the ear). Second song type composed of musical, downslurred elements (at 28 secs in this recording). Singing from tree-fall area in a spruce plantation bordering sycamore/beech trees.