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November 2025 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Glossy Ibis Angle Park GP 1st 1 Great White Egret Angle Park GP 1st 1 Black Tern Fife Ness 1st 1 Great Skua Fife Ness 1st 1 Greenshank Fife Ness 1st 75 Little Gulls Fife Ness 1st 1 Short-eared Owl Kingsbarns 1st 1 Marsh Harrier (adult female) Mugdrum Island 1st 1 American Golden Plover
October 2025 Sightings
Date Count Species Location 1st 1 Caspian Gull Angle Park GP 1st 1 Firecrest Kittock’s Den 1st 98 Mediterranean Gulls East Wemyss (Back Dykes roost) 2nd 2 Red-crested Pochard Angle Park GP 2nd 1 Curlew Sandpiper (juvenile) Guardbridge 2nd 1 Mediterranean Gull Guardbridge 2nd 2 Ravens Guardbridge 3rd 1 Barred Warbler Balcomie 3rd 1 Hawfinch Balcomie 3rd 1 Lesser Whitethroat
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FBC Annual Awards
Winners of the 2023 FBC annual awards were announced at the April 2024 Indoor Meeting: Rarest Bird Found in Mainland Fife – Jared Wilson, Stejneger’s Scoter, Lower Largo, April-May 2023. Photograph of the Year –
Annual General Meeting
The 2022 AGM will be at the Dean Park Hotel on 7th July at 7.30 p.m.
April 2022 Sightings
Garganey were still showing at St Andrews and Cameron Reservoir on the 1st with the pair and the drake respectively. 35 Golden Plover were counted on East Lomond, a Greenshank was on the Stinky Pool
March 2022 Sightings
March began as February had ended with the Green-winged Teal and two Greenshanks still showing at The Wilderness and the potential first accepted record for Fife of Ross’s Goose seen in that vicinity before returning
Art Raffle for Ukraine
FBC member Leo du Feu has combined with fellow artists to set up an art raffle / prize draw in support of the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal and invites you to take part via a JustGiving