Monday 21 August 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 18th August

A nice calm day with a light easterly breeze, sunny in the morning becoming overcast and threatening by the evening; the nets at Holland first thing yielded pretty much nothing before the Hooking census route produced the Buff-breasted Sandpiper still on The Links, 21 Black-tailed Godwits, 7 Bar-tailed Godwits, 1,150 Golden Plover and a Greenshank while a bit of a wildfowl influx included 40 Mallard, 16 Teal and 8 Shoveler on the loch.


Juvenile Great Black-backed Gull

This orange ringed Great Black-backed Gull was originally ringed as a chick on Sanday, then re-trapped at Pitsea in London, where the darvic ring was added, it then came back up here in 2013 where I saw it and then again this year.

Grey Plover

Golden Plover


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