Wednesday 26 July 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 23rd July


Pleasant throughout with a brisk northerly wind; nets at Holland first thing produced juvenile Swallow and Sedge Warbler before birds around the Obs census route included 2 Red-necked Phalaropes still and the Black-throated Diver again along with 425 Golden Plover, 7 Dunlin, 16 Sanderling and 5 Arctic Skuas still hammering the Tysties bringing fish into their colonies.

                Not much else through the day but I managed to catch some Fulmars in Nouster and amongst the re-traps was a bird originally ringed in 1995.


Juvenile Arctic Tern

Rocks (and a Purple Sandpiper)







More Arctic Skua v Black Guillemot action

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