I was able to start this blog last year with a new "tick" for my patch of an Iceland gull, well at the start of this year on the edge of the same. A minimum of two nuthatches have taken up residence in Ravenscraig park, Dysart/Kirkcaldy.
It has been a slow spread of this mainly arboreal bird into Fife, Breeding populations have been well established across the forth in Lothian region for many years.
Nuthatches are unusual in that they are as adept at crawling facing forwards going down tree trunks as they are at going up (as image shows) and if this bird is anything to go by more likely to be located by a very loud and high pitched call, easily picked out from our more usual "tit" and finch species.