NORTH RONALDSAY - 8th September

A good, autumnal feeling day with light winds and misty, murk coming and going through the day, it was just a shame that the wind had gone back into the NW; opened the nets first thing which produced a few birds including a new Barred Warbler, a Marsh Warbler (a tricky, small, bright individual with a wing of 68), a Reed Warbler, an early Brambling (unsurprisingly the first of the autumn) and a Willow Warbler.   My first Yellow-browed Warbler of the year was in the Kirkyard (the island’s earliest ever one was yesterday) and the Black Redstart was again around the buildings.

                The rest of the Obs census route was OK without being too busy as birds included another Yellow-browed Warbler and a Common Rosefinch in Funny Park, a Redstart, a Blackcap, a Rock Pipit, a Ruff on Gretchen, 3 Wheatears and a Garden Warbler just over in Kirbest.

Marsh Warbler

Brambling

Yellow-browed Warbler

Kittiwake