Saturday 12 September 2015

12th September


A much more autumnal feeling day with a strong NE wind and plenty of cloud cover; most of the birds through the morning were on the sea where 182 Pale-bellied Brent Geese went south (the first returning birds) along with 16 Red-throated Divers, 2 juvenile Black Guillemots, 9 Velvet Scoter and 5 Arctic Terns while 2 Merlins, 4 Peregrines and various Sparrowhawks and Kestrels bombed around.

                The windswept coast was fairly quiet with 7 Pintail in Sevika, 3 Little Stints and a flyover Lapland Bunting on the tip of Steinodden and a male Goshawk flying across the mouth of Verevågen the highlights; inland birds included 2 Spotted Flycatchers, 3 Redstarts, 12+ Kestrels dotted around, a few more Wheatears and at least 11 Herons.
 


3, 2, 1 Little Stints

Kestrel
 

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