Tuesday, 21 August 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 21st August


A nice, flat calm start to the day but the now SE wind rapidly picked up to force 7 by the afternoon with mist and murk slowly increasing as well; opened the nets first thing but there were no new migrants in the garden with the re-trapped Nightingale again the highlight.   A flock of 6 Wigeon and a Shoveler came in, 4 Ruff were in the fields and a young male Merlin shot over; the rest of the Obs census route was unremarkable despite the good feeling, autumnal conditions with a Red-throated Diver close in off The Lurn and the Hen Harrier drifting close past the Gretchen hide.








Hen Harrier

Great Black-backed Gull


Red-throated Diver

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