Tuesday, 20 November 2018

NORTH RONALDSAY - 19th November


A good feeling day with a brisk SE wind and extensive cloud cover; I walked round the Obs to Kirbest to Holland, Hooking then Brides with the highlight being a female Velvet Scoter with a group of 7 Common Scoter off Brides (the first of the year).   There was a good selection of land birds seen including a Long-eared Owl flushed from in front of T4, 2 Merlin, 6 Woodcock, 12 Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipits, 5 Rock Pipits, 3 Robins, a Song Thrush, 7 Chaffinch, a Brambling, 85 Twite in the Kirbest crop, 7 Common Redpolls (three at Kirbest and four near Brides), 49 Snow Buntings and 10 Reed Buntings.

                Other birds included 7 Red-throated Divers, a Great-northern Diver, 5 Herons, the four Pink-footed Geese, 5 Red-breasted Mergansers, 62 Sanderling, 49 Dunlin, 14 Bar-tailed Godwits and 3 Grey Plover (one on The Links and two in Nouster).



Velvet Scoter and Common Scoters


Common Redpolls


Grey Plover

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