NORTH RONALDSAY - 2nd June

A lovely day with light winds and plenty of sunshine after a damp start; nets at Holland first thing produced a new Chiffchaff - two others were also in the garden along with 6 Collared Doves and the Robin while there was a ‘grey’ Curlew Sandpiper in the bare field south of the gardens.   I then walked the west coast census route where birds included the summer plumaged Little Stint again on Gretchen and 108 Knot and 40 Sanderling in Lenswick (waders seem to be lingering much longer than usual) before we ringed a brood of four Hooded Crows in Holland.

More Arctic Tern porn!