Friday 25 August 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 24th August


After a wild, wet and windy night it was oddly calm and dry at dawn, so I took advantage of the weather window and had about two hours at Holland where I caught a cracking GREENISH WARBLER on the first round while other birds there included 2 Tree Pipits over (the first of the autumn), 7+ Willow Warblers, a Garden Warbler and a Kestrel.

                Several hours of solid rain then moved in during which I walked round the Hooking census route where birds included another Tree Pipit at The Mill, a single Pintail on the loch, 19 Teal, a Grey Plover on The Links, 15 Black-tailed Godwits, 9 Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Ruff and 20 Sand Martins   The afternoon was drier but there was little else in the rest of the Hooking census route but we all went up to Torness to get great views of a smart juvenile Dotterel running around (thought we’d missed out on that this year!) while a Short-eared Owl floated around Nether Linnay.


Greenish Warbler

This Garden Warbler had a hard life in the nest!
Tree Pipit



Dotterel

Short-eared Owl

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