Scottish Birds 43:1 (2023)

2 Foreword R. Briggs

PAPERS & SHORT NOTES

3 Roosting and feeding Pink-footed Geese in Fife, 1991/92 to 2020/21 A.W. Brown & L.M. Brown

16 Changes to the Common Scoter population winteringoff Dornoch, Moray Firth, Highland D. Patterson, D. MacAskill, D. Tanner & J. Graham

23 Tawny Owl preying upon Swallow chicks B. Swann & R. Munro

24 Slavonian Grebes associating with seaducks in the Moray Firth D.Patterson

26 Cliff-nesting hirundines in Scotland N. Elkins

27 Aspects of a Brambling influx over the winter of 2021/22 T.W. Dougall, B.M. Lynch & W. Edmond

CLUB ARTICLES, NEWS & VIEWS

32 SOC Annual Conference, Atholl Palace Hotel, Pitlochry, November 2022

40 NEWS AND NOTICES

46 OBITUARIES

Iain Paton Gibson (1951–2022) B. Zonfrillo

David Jenkins (1926–2022) N. Picozzi

49 Muirburn - still a hot topic A. Barker

51 SOC Lothian Branch hosts junior goosewatch R. Filipiak

53 Coal Tit robs Red Squirrel C. Smith

54 BOOK REVIEWS Compiled by N. Picozzi

BIRDING ARTICLES & OBSERVATIONS

56 RINGERS' ROUNDUP R. Duncan 62 Changes to the SBRC List M. Lewis, D. Steel & C.J. McInerny 64 2022 - A Bumper Year for Rarities in Scottish Borders R. Jackson 73 Caspian Gulls in North-East Scotland, 2nd–4th North-East Scotland records, August 2022 A. Bassett & M. Lewis

77 Unusually large numbers of Cory’s Shearwaters and Great Shearwaters seen in Scotland during the summer and autumn of 2022 C.J. McInerny

82 Pacific Swift at Sumburgh Head, 19 June 2022 - first Shetland record A. Howard

83 Greater Sand Plover, Strathbeg Lagoon, 20 August 2022 - second North-East Scotland record

R. Macdonald

85 Paddyfield Warbler at St Abb’s Head, 31 August 2022 - the second record for Borders P. Safford

86 Melodious Warbler, Cruden Bay, 5–9 September 2022 - third North-East Scotland record

P. Bloor

88 Brown Shrike, Bullers of Buchan, 8 September 2022 - second North-East Scotland record

P. Hackett

89 BlackKiteatOuthead, 12 September 2022 - the first record for Fife F. Todd

91 A ‘southern’ Yellow Wagtail at Quendale and Brake, Shetland, 1 October 2022 A.H.J. Harrop & P.V. Harvey

95 Least Bittern at Scousburgh, Shetland, 7 October 2022 - first British record B. Mitchell & S.D. Keightley

PHOTOSPOT

BC Kingfisher J. Agnew

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