Continuing the nice
weather with light winds and cloud coming and going; opened the nets first
thing where I managed to catch a single Willow Warbler and some Wrens but the
highlight came just as I had finished opening and walked a few metres down the
road to scan a big flock of 320 Common Gulls in a recently cut field and almost
immediately picked out a smart juvenile MEDITERRANEAN GULL –
a North Ron tick and the first on here since 2009. The long staying juvenile Cuckoo also made an appearance, perching on a mist net pole
before heading down towards the Obs mobbed by about 30 Swallows.
Other birds round the rest of the Obs census route
included a single Roseate Tern which flew low over T5
heading for a big feeding flock of Terns off The Lurn (two were seen again at
Brides an hour beforehand), two Ruff south over the Obs, a Swift over Holland,
a Heron, 14 Dunlin on Gretchen and at least 15 Arctic Skuas off the south end.
Mediterranean Gull
Arctic Tern
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