Sunday 29 July 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 29th July


Still bright and sunny with an even stronger SE wind in the morning with cloud building from mid-afternoon; a little walk round The Lurn before sheep punding just produced six Swifts which came in off the sea from the west.   I then walked around the middle census route at lunchtime where birds included a juvenile Ruff on Ancum (the first juvenile of the autumn) along with 2 Herons, 10 Teal and good views of a Water Rail, a Black-tailed Godwit and 146 Oystercatchers in the cut fields and a good selection of waders at Westness including 135 Dunlin, 22 Knot, 10 Purple Sandpipers, 60 Turnstone and 5 Sanderling.







Tysties

Swift


Black-tailed Godwit


Bonxie

Juvenile Sand Martin

Heron annoying the Terns

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