• Five facts about Scotland’s winter migrants
    While some species leave the UK for winter, many others are arriving. Pink-footed geese, sanderling, and whooper swans are just some of the species we can expect to be joining us soon as they arrive from...
  • Five Facts about hawfinches
    Molly Martin tells us five facts about one of our less familiar finches, the hawfinch, or gobach. Hawfinches are big! They are our largest finch, only slightly smaller than a blackbird! Apart from...
  • Five facts about foxgloves
    Foxgloves are some of the most recognisable wildflowers out at the moment . They are found in woodland, along hedgerows and riverbanks, on heath and chalkland, hillsides, coasts and sea cliffs. Molly...
  • Five facts about goldeneye
    In Scotland we are lucky enough to have some resident goldeneye ducks, who are otherwise mostly just winter visitors to the UK. In this blog RSPB Scotland’s McGregor, Allie McGregor, shares five facts...
  • Five facts about goldfinches
    RSPB Scotland’s Allie McGregor shares five facts about one of our common garden visitors. Five facts about goldfinches A goldfinch by any other name… Goldfinches have been known by many regional...