After early morning rain
had moved through (with plenty overnight) it was a great day with much calmer
winds and plenty of bright sunshine; an early morning seawatch was very quiet
with two Manx Shearwaters the only birds of note, I then opened the nets at
Holland for a couple of hours which produced two fresh juvenile Sedge Warblers
as the highlight with another Hummingbird Hawkmoth along the road there also
noteworthy.
I then walked round the northern census route with
high numbers of birds seen, although not much could be picked out in amongst
them; a Kestrel at Senness was the land migrant highlight while there were
notable influxes of waders with 160 Dunlin, 71 Knot (including a Norwegian
flagged bird), 23 Purple Sandpipers, 350 Golden Plovers (1,350+ for the whole
island), 61 Curlews, 24 Bar-tailed Godwits and 30 Ringed Plovers and big
numbers of Arctic Terns with at least 1,700 around the north end – 5,050 for
the whole island (just short of the island record count!).
Other little bits included two more dispersing
juvenile Sedge Warblers at Senness along with four fledgling Reed Buntings,
three juvenile Shoveler on Garso and my first North Ron Peacock of the year at
Vincoin.
Arctic Terns of various ages
Shoveler
Knot, with the Norwegian colour ringed bird
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