Friday, 27 April 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 27th April


A gorgeous day with hardly a breath of wind throughout and plenty of sunshine; the highlights in the Hooking census area included the first Arctic Tern of the year distantly off The Links and a pair of Garganey with a drake on Hooking and a female on Cauldhame Flash.

                It was quiet otherwise with 8 Sand Martins on The Links seen entering the burrows on the cliff, the Kumlien’s Gull again, 6 Red-breasted Mergansers, 7 Great-northern Divers and 20 Wheatears.   Other birds included the Black-throated Diver again in Nouster with 12 Great-northern Divers and a Rook over Holland where there was also a Brambling, a singing Lesser Whitethroat and 2 Dunnocks.



Sand Martin


Shoveler

Teal



Wren

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