NORTH RONALDSAY - 10th December

Not a bad day with lighter NNW winds and no showers; it was quiet out in the field but a walk along the coast from The Obs to The Links produced 8 Red-throated Divers, a Great-northern Diver, 2 Herons, 23 Long-tailed Duck, the Kestrel, 235 Golden Plover, 40 Sanderling, 108 Purple Sandpipers, 2 Black-headed Gulls, 110 Common Gulls, 13 Rock Pipits, a Robin, 4 Fieldfare, a Song Thrush, 9 Redwing, 6 Chaffinches still, 19 Twite and 102 Snow Buntings.

Sanderling