Friday, 26 October 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 23rd October


Another really rough day after an incredibly windy and wet night with force 8 WNW winds and vicious squalls coming through every few minutes (more wet than dry); I started out carrying out the middle census route and after about an hour I had seen 8 Whooper Swans, 5 Pink-footed Geese, 2 Barnacle Geese, a Hen Harrier and a few Brambling, Chaffinch and Redwings before I was called away over to Brides.   It took about two hours but I eventually got reasonable views albeit in horrible conditions of a really smart and distinctive looking presumed EASTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL feeding around the edge of the loch – the afternoon was then just unbirdable so we didn’t bother!


Eastern Yellow Wagtail (picture by GG)

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