A glorious day with light
NE winds and wall to wall sunshine; there was a hint of some late migrants at
Holland first thing as I caught 3 new Chiffchaffs and a Blackcap while the
Collared Dove flock was up to 6. The
Brides census route was then quiet with the obvious exception of a very tatty BLACK KITE which flew north up the coast past Brides, went out
over Linklet Bay, was picked up by other folks at the top end before spiralling
up and heading north to Fair Isle (where it landed two hours later!), it was a
horrible looking bird with heavy feather abrasion to both its tail and
primaries, completely changing its profile to the extent I wasn’t really sure
what it was! Its almost certainly the
same bird that has been seen sporadically on Orkney Mainland since November
last year and identified as a Black-eared Kite and labelled a probable escape.
While other people were twitching the Kite they
picked up an Osprey coming in from the north and I saw it
as it headed south over The Links and away down the centre of the island – that
was all the highlights for the day!
Black Kite record shots
Great Black-backed Gull
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