NORTH RONALDSAY - 13th August

A fine, lovely day with plenty of warm sunshine and light NW winds; birdwise we’re still just ticking along with no passerine migrants coming through yet but a steady turnover of waders with Ruff and Knot most prominent.  Totals today included a Sooty Shearwater and 3 Manx Shearwaters off the top end, a Heron, the juvenile female Peregrine again, 160 Knot, 6 Ruff, 16 Black-tailed Godwits, a Greenshank, the first juvenile Bonxie of the year on The Links (not one of ours), 3 juvenile Stonechats – the first of the autumn, presumably from not too far away elsewhere on Orkney and 3 Willow Warblers.

Juvenile Kittiwake