Tuesday, 12 June 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 11th June


Another nice day with light westerly winds and varying amounts of cloud cover; changed my routine and instead of going to nets I went for a seawatch which produced, in two hours, an unprecedented flock of 55 Common Scoter (more than double the previous island record count!), 36 Manx Shearwaters, 2 Storm Petrels (my first of the year), 195 Gannets, 2 Red-throated Divers, 45 Puffins and 1,544 Auk sp.   That was pretty much it for the day as far as migrants went with 4 Black-tailed Godwits on Garso the only other things to mention.








Arctic Skua giving its distraction display


Bonxie giving its full on attack display

Pied Wagtail fledgling


Meadow Pipit with food

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