2021 5MR

5MR is a 5 mile radius around where you live in which you record things without making big journeys. Originally I suppose it was intended to be a greener way of recording, but it works well with pandemic lockdowns too. Typically this would be birds, and in my case it mostly is. All my local patches are within 5 miles so most of what I record is in the area. 2021 will be confined to birds, but I'll include any other special records on here too.

My local patches, circled in the map, include:

1. Calais Muir Wood - increasingly isolated in new housing, was close to my office

2. Fordell Woods - just north of my town it's an estate with a large Scout activity centre

3. Dalgety Bay - where I live, > 2k. spp. recorded

4. Inverkeithing - my vismig spot. Calcareous geology gives some variety on the ground

5. Carlingnose Point - classic seawatch point, SWT reserve. Also calcareous

6. Mossmorran - Bog with heather and cotton grass

7. Cullaloe Hills - Forestry Commission plantation

8. Cullaloe LNR - decommissioned reservoir, my local SWT reserve. > 2k. spp. recorded

9. Humbie Wood - wet woodland, under-explored.

Patch gold

A. Humpback Whale, seen from roadside layby

B. Glaucous Gull, Burntisland Harbour

List

count Species loc date

1 Razorbill Coastal Path 16-Jan

2 Common Snipe Cullaloe LNR 18-Jan

3 Greylag Goose field 19-Jan

4 Collared Dove Moray Way S 20-Jan

5 Moorhen Ross PLtn 20-Jan

6 Pied Wag playground 20-Jan

7 Treecreeper garden 20-Jan

8 Blackbird garden 21-Jan

9 Blue Tit garden 21-Jan

10 Curlew Sailing Club 21-Jan

11 Mallard Ross PLtn 21-Jan

12 Oystercatcher Sailing Club 21-Jan

13 Pink-footed Goose garden 21-Jan

14 Redshank Sailing Club 21-Jan

15 Robin garden 21-Jan

16 Rook coastal 21-Jan

17 Teal Cullaloe LNR 21-Jan

18 Black-headed Gull Coastal Path 22-Jan

19 Carrion Crow Coastal Path 22-Jan

20 Chaffinch Coastal Path 22-Jan

21 Coal Tit Coastal Path 22-Jan

22 Common Gull Coastal Path 22-Jan

23 Dunlin Bay 22-Jan

24 Dunnock Coastal Path 22-Jan

25 Goldeneye Coastal Path 22-Jan

26 Goldfinch Coastal Path 22-Jan

27 Great Crested Grebe Coastal Path 22-Jan

28 Great Tit Coastal Path 22-Jan

29 Grey Heron Coastal Path 22-Jan

30 Herring Gull Coastal Path 22-Jan

31 House Sparrow Coastal Path 22-Jan

32 Jackdaw Coastal Path 22-Jan

33 Linnet Coastal Path 22-Jan

34 Little Grebe Coastal Path 22-Jan

35 Red-throated Diver Coastal Path 22-Jan

36 Ringed Plover Bay 22-Jan

37 Shelduck Bay 22-Jan

38 Siskin Cullaloe LNR 22-Jan

39 Song Thrush Coastal Path 22-Jan

40 Starling Coastal Path 22-Jan

41 Wigeon Bay 22-Jan

42 Wren Coastal Path 22-Jan

43 Bullfinch Inverkeithing 23-Jan

44 Feral Pigeon Inverkeithing 23-Jan

45 Greenfinch Inverkeithing 23-Jan

46 Lesser Black-backed Gull Inverkeithing 23-Jan

47 Mute Swan Inverkeithing 23-Jan

48 Skylark Inverkeithing 23-Jan

49 Stock Dove Inverkeithing 23-Jan

50 Eider Bay 24-Jan

51 Goosander Bay 24-Jan

52 Great Black-backed Gull Bay 24-Jan

53 Lesser Redpoll Bay 24-Jan

54 Turnstone Bay 24-Jan

55 Goldcrest Cullaloe LNR 25-Jan

56 Meadow Pipit Fordell 25-Jan

57 Long-tailed Tit Bay 26-Jan

58 Pheasant Bay 26-Jan

59 Woodcock Bay 28-Jan

60 Mistle Thrush Bay 29-Jan

61 Coot Cullaloe LNR 30-Jan

62 Redwing Cullaloe LNR 30-Jan

63 Tufted Duck Cullaloe LNR 30-Jan

64 Cormorant Bay 01-Feb

65 Tree Sparrow Bay 01-Feb

66 Fulmar Bay 03-Feb

67 Kittiwake Bay 03-Feb

68 Red-breasted Merganser Bay 03-Feb

69 Grey Wagtail Bay 05-Feb

70 Common Buzzard Cullaloe LNR 07-Feb

71 Bar-tailed Godwit Bay 09-Feb

72 Fieldfare Bay 09-Feb

73 Lapwing Bay 10-Feb

74 GLAUCOUS GULL Burntisland 13-Feb

75 Sparrowhawk Burntisland 13-Feb

76 Reed Bunting Bay 14-Feb

77 Yellowhammer Bay 14-Feb

78 Tawny owl Bay 10-Mar

79 Raven Cullaloe LNR 15-Mar

80 Chiffchaff Cullaloe LNR 19-Mar

81 Canada Goose Otterston 13-Apr

82 Gadwall Otterston 13-Apr

83 Sand Martin Otterston 13-Apr

84 House Martin Otterston 13-Apr

85 Barn Swallow Otterston 13-Apr

86 Blackcap Otterston 14-Apr

87 Sandwich Tern Bay 23-Apr

88 Whimbrel Bay 25-Apr