PICTURE FOR THE DAY
Red Kite and Raven, Moray 7 August 2022 (Robert Ince)
BIRDS IN MORAY & NAIRN 2019 is now published and can be found under ‘Bird Reports’ – ‘2011 onwards’, or at Birds in Moray & Nairn 2019
First dates for summer migrants in 2022:
Spotted Flycatcher 1 Hill of Glaschyle 18/5
Swift 1 Cragganmore 8/5
Little Tern 8 Spey Bay 8/5
Whitethroat 1 Kirkhill 28/4
Sedge Warbler 1 Kingston 24/4
Cuckoo 1 Glenlivet 21/4
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hillpark 20/4
Common Tern 4 Rothes 19/4
White Wagtail 1 Nairn 17/4
Tree Pipit 2 Whiteash Hill Wood 15/4
Blackcap 1 Loch Spynie 15/4
Willow Warbler 2 Cloddach quarry 15/4
House Martin 1 Mosstodloch 14/4
Common Sandpiper 1 Pitchroy 14/4
Swallow 3 Loch Spynie 13/4
Whimbrel 22 Lossiemouth 10/4
Osprey 1 south of Forres 31/3
Sand Martin 2 Loch Spynie 25/3
Garganey 2 Loch Spynie 22/3
Wheatear 1 Burghead 20/3
Chiffchaff 1 Lossiemouth 12/3
Sandwich Tern 1 Lossiemouth 12/3
AGE CATEGORIES OF GULLS
Glaucous Gull [2CY], Lossie estuary March 2019 (David Main)
For example, such as the Glaucous Gull pictured above:
From hatching in June 2018 until 31 December 2018 = 1st calendar year (or 1CY)
From 1 January 2019 until 31 December 2019 = 2nd calendar year (or 2CY), as pictured
and so on through 3CY [1 January 2020-31 December 2020] etc.
Birds with no sign of immaturity = adult
