Saturday, 27 October 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 27th October


A similar day with the cold, strong northerly bringing more nasty hail / rain showers throughout; there were a few birds in the Brides census route including the first Glaucous Gull of the autumn past Stennabreck with plenty of Great Black-backs and big, ugly, dark Herring Gulls, yet another Yellow Wagtail on the shore by Howar (the Trolla bird was still present), single Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Wheatear also along that sheltered bit of coast in Nouster, 5 Long-tailed Ducks, a Great-northern Diver, 17 Snow Buntings, 9 Reed Buntings, single Song Thrush and Fieldfare and a few Redwings.

                A seawatch in the late afternoon was unremarkable apart from a good, steady movement of 1,890 Fulmars in an hour along with a few Auks and a single Bonxie.




Yellow Wagtail

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