Monday, 25 June 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 23rd June


A horrible day with a blasting westerly bringing nasty showers in the morning and thick, drizzle murk in the afternoon; there were thousands of birds offshore in the morning as totals in 1.5hrs included 1,200+ Kittiwakes (on land and at sea), 1,167 Puffins, 1,700 large Auks, 340 Gannets, 20 Arctic Skuas, 11 Manx Shearwaters and 2 Storm Petrels.


Huge numbers of roosting Kittiwakes at the foghorn



Which include good numbers of these very worn 2cy birds



This slightly darker mantled Lesser Black-backed Gull made me look twice but it was nothing special - maybe a touch of intermedius in there somewhere




More Kittiwakes - taken a few days ago

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