
Spent a very pleasant day in and around Linlithgow. A walk around the loch produced plenty of birds including a high count of 28 Cormorants, a single Goosander at the west end (my first there), the regular Shelduck unusually down at the east end, the recently-reported Wood Duck, but no sign of the female Smew. The Chaffinch flock in fields to the north east contained two Reed Buntings and a Siskin. Meanwhile, there were four Dippers and six Goosanders along a two kilometre stretch of the Avon from Linlithgow Bridge to the Union Canal Viaduct.

Above and below: Wood Duck, Linlithgow Loch

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