Wednesday, 8 August 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 8th August


Flat calm in the morning with a moderate breeze springing up through the day; opened the nets again first thing with the only bird of note being another Garden Warbler with a single Swift overhead.   I then walked round the northern census route where birds included a Black Redstart at the Lighthouse, two of the juvenile Mediterranean Gulls in fields near Senness, a Kestrel, 7 Knot, 9 Bar-tailed Godwits, 48 Curlew and 400 Golden Plover.

                Also of note were two juvenile Ravens cruising around the top end – immigrants from somewhere else, a juvenile Little Grebe on Garso – the first evidence of successful breeding this year and a flock of 9 Twite by the Lighthouse – all juveniles, probably from here.





Mediterranean Gull

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