NORTH RONALDSAY - 31st July

A calm start with the SE wind picking up through the day; opened the nets first thing after some early morning drizzle had moved through which produced nine juvenile Swallows (eight new ones), one of yesterday’s Sedge Warblers and a bright yellow, juvenile Willow Warbler.   Other bits around the garden included a Black Redstart by the Kirk (present round the Obs the last couple of days, the Hummingbird Hawkmoth again and a Heron over to the south.

                There wasn’t too much else around the rest of the Obs census route with 18 Purple Sandpipers round the pier, 8 Dunlin and a couple of Sanderling on Gretchen which now has a bit of water in it and 3 Knot.

Sedge Warbler

Willow Warbler