Sunday, 29 July 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 28th July


Bright and sunny first thing with a strong SE wind but it clouded over in the afternoon with some drops of rain; I walked up the west coast in the morning where the highlight was a Hummingbird Hawkmoth in the small front garden at Burray which was associated with a little influx of 8 Painted Ladies, 13 Red Admirals and quite a few Silver Y’s.

                Other birds included the first Common Sandpiper of the autumn by the airstrip, 11 Purple Sandpipers, 70 Turnstone and a big influx of 2,500+ Arctic Terns on Torness.






Hummingbird Hawkmoth


Juvenile Arctic Skua, the second year in a row that a single chick has fledged from Torness





Nice pale phase adult

and a 2cy bird

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