Thursday, 2 August 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 1st August


A nice day with light winds and bright sunshine; a morning seawatch was very quiet with a single Manx Shearwater the only bird of note.   A walk round Brides and Hooking then produced a huge juvenile female Peregrine which flew south over the Obs (the first one for ages), a Roseate Tern which flew past the gate at Brides calling but I couldn’t re-find it in the flock at Bridesness Point (probably one of the birds from 27th July) and a big flock of mixed waders at Hooking with hundreds of Golden Plover, Redshank and Lapwings.



Nice moulting Purple Sandpipers

Turnstone

Juvenile Great Black-backed Gull

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