NORTH RONALDSAY - 30th August

A wet and windy morning, easing off by lunchtime but the showers not really stopping until mid-afternoon when the southerly wind also died away; some good totals were posted through the day, especially after the rain stopped but there was nothing really different in amongst the high counts.   Numbers included a Red-throated Diver, 12 Sooty Shearwaters, 4 Manx Shearwaters, 2 Herons, single Hen Harrier and Peregrine, 665 Golden Plover, 128 Lapwing, 46 Knot, 115 Sanderling, a Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Whimbrel, 112 Redshank, 2 Green Sandpipers, 247 Turnstone, a good 14 Swifts (a good count for this late in the year), 240 Meadow Pipits, a Whinchat, 260+ Wheatears, 4 Willow Warblers and the Holland House Linnet roost up to 340.

Swifts