A good day with plenty of sunshine and a moderate
westerly breeze; birds at Holland first thing included a smart, very white Mealy Redpoll, 2 Goldcrests, a Dunnock
and a few Blackbirds and Redwings. We
then dashed up the isle where, after about an hour of searching we finally
connected with a MAGPIE sat on the
foghorn at the very north tip, it posed nicely for a while before moving to sit
on the seawatch hide and then the beacon!
A real island mega, only the 3rd ever and the first for over
20 years! (presumably the same bird that was seen on Eday yesterday).
I
then walked the Hooking census route in the afternoon where birds included the Northern Harrier
seen over the school, 16 Snow Buntings, a Chaffinch, a Brambling (rather strangely
foraging in the middle of a field with a flock of Meadow Pipits!), a singing
Chiffchaff, the single Pink-footed Goose and Whooper Swan, 7 Great-northern
Divers, 52 Sanderling, 6 Bar-tailed Godwits and 245 Golden Plover.
A
few hours at Holland in the evening produced 3 Lapland Buntings which flew over, a Fieldfare, 4 Woodpigeons and
at least 140 Linnets which came into roost.
Magpie on the foghorn, with Fair Isle in the background!
Snow Bunting
Brambling
This Kittiwake was fishing like a Gannet!
Worked though!
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