Saturday, 18 August 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 18th August


A very different day with a blazing force 8 gale and regular, heavy showers sweeping through; I had a seawatch first thing which produced 7 Sooty Shearwaters, 8 Manx Shearwaters, 708 Fulmars, 150 Gannets and 100 Kittiwakes in an hour and a half while 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 7 Golden Plover and 6 Ringed Plovers came in off the sea with a flock of 12 Lesser Black-backs in fields.

                There was little else to mention in tricky conditions with 60 Dunlin and 30 Ringed Plovers on Gretchen and good numbers of close Arctic Skuas and Gannets passing close in to The Lurn.


Arctic Skua



Gannet

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