Mediterranean Inverkeithing

Nice of a Med Gull to pop into Inverkeithing this morning. Not the Brown Booby of Kinghorn yesterday, but it's an addition to the patch year list at least

Singing Song Thrush

So the beetle drive ended ignominiously under the target by far, with a loss of weather and inclination. I shall make up for it with a record number of records and species through the year as penance. Maybes.

This morning a Song Thrush was giving it big licks behind the house, so I diverted from matters entomological to memorialise the occasion in lino print.

January beetles 'n' birds

Beetles - a few added from Moss Morran plus "leftovers" from other sites. In '21 I had recorded 30 spp. by the 10th of January,  If anything I'm marginally behind (but there are 24 hours to go!). Obviously that means I only recorded 20 spp. in the latter 20 days of January '21, which I can surely better. Thus far only tussocking and light rock/log turning. Too wet/frozen for leaf litter. Nothing strand line/littoral. No pond dipping.

Paradromius linearis, as common as they come.

Count	Family	Species		Location
1	Carabidae	Agonum fuliginosum		Cullaloe LNR
2	Carabidae	Agonum muelleri		Cullaloe LNR
3	Carabidae	Amara plebeja		Cullaloe LNR
4	Carabidae	Bembidion guttula		Dalgety Bay
5	Carabidae	Bembidion mannerheimii		Cullaloe Hills
6	Carabidae	Bembidion saxatile		Dalgety Bay
7	Carabidae	Paradromius linearis		Moss Morran
8	Carabidae	Pterostichus nigrita		Cullaloe LNR
9	Carabidae	Pterostichus strenuus		Dalgety Bay
10	Carabidae	Trichocellus placidus		Dalgety Bay
11	Chrysomelidae	Oulema melanopus s.l.		Moss Morran
12	Chrysomelidae	Phyllotreta nigripes		Cullaloe LNR
13	Dryopidae	Dryops ernesti		Cullaloe LNR
14	Erotylidae	Triplax aenea		Cullaloe LNR
15	Silphidae	Silpha atrata		Dalgety Bay
16	Staphylinidae	Anotylus rugosus		Dalgety Bay
17	Staphylinidae	Lathrobium brunnipes		Cullaloe LNR
18	Staphylinidae	Philonthus decorus		Moss Morran
19	Staphylinidae	Quedius fuliginosus		Cullaloe LNR
20	Staphylinidae	Sepedophilus nigripennis		Cullaloe LNR
21	Staphylinidae	Sitona lineatus		Cullaloe LNR
22	Staphylinidae	Stenus clavicornis		Moss Morran
23	Staphylinidae	Stenus juno		Cullaloe LNR
24	Staphylinidae	Stenus picipes		Cullaloe Hills
25	Staphylinidae	Tachinus rufipes		Dalgety Bay
26	Staphylinidae	Tachyporus dispar		Cullaloe LNR
27	Staphylinidae	Tachyporus hypnorum		Cullaloe LNR
28	Staphylinidae	Xantholinus longiventris		Moss Morran

Bird latest totals: 9th January

Dalgety Bay birds 2023: 60 spp. (Grey Wag, Turnstone)

Inverkeithing birds 2023: 36 spp.

I twitched a bird and I liked it

Hope my inverts don't mind it.

Lesser Scaup, happily appearing at the not-too-distant Beveridge park in Kirkcaldy just as we were deciding where to go out for a walk. That'll do. Until someone finds a reason to disallow it, that is. Relocated from the day before, where it was still at Kinghorn Loch. Plumage details let you know it's the same individual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkysc6fYIJE

Braefoot birds

 Hard to photograph the passage birds in the morning but at lunchtime Monday 14th there was one Bar-tailed Godwit in the roost on the rocks and a female Wheatear on the harbour wall. It was kind enough to allow me a phone shot through binoculars, which wasn't easy!