Monday, 30 April 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 30th April


An insane day with hardly a breath of wind, not a cloud in the sky and flat, mirror calm seas; nets at Holland first thing were predictably quiet with birds in the vicinity including a Willow Warbler, a flyover Goldfinch, 2 Common Redpolls and 4 Rooks which went north.   The northern census route was also quiet with 14 Great-northern Divers offshore, a Whimbrel, 3 Carrion Crows in off the sea from the north and a group pf 5 Barnacle Geese by the lighthouse while a single Chiffchaff was the only migrant Passerine.

                A walk round the coast by the Obs late afternoon produced another 14 Great-northern Divers, the Black-throated Diver again in Nouster and 7 Long-tailed Ducks still with 7 Black-tailed Godwits and an Arctic Tern at Gretchen.


Barnacle Geese


Black-tailed Godwits

Arctic Tern

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