NORTH RONALDSAY - 3rd August

Beautiful and calm with extensive cloud cover; opened the nets first thing but it was pretty quiet with the obvious highlight being a smart Pied Flycatcher, the juvenile Cuckoo was again round the garden as was a single Willow Warbler.   Walked round the rest of the Obs census route where most of the birds were in the cut fields and included 850+ Golden Plover, a single Black-tailed Godwit, 300+ Common Gulls and at least 25 Lesser Black-backed Gulls with 10 fresh juveniles while a Great-northern Diver was offshore.

Black-tailed Godwit

Meadow Pipit