NORTH RONALDSAY - 22nd February

Still getting hammered by a blazing force 8 westerly wind with vicious squalls whipping through so I naturally concentrated on the (relatively) sheltered east side in the morning where birds around The Links and Hooking included 2 Glaucous Gulls (a first year and a third year) roosting with 120 Great Black-backed Gulls, the drake Smew relocated to Hooking and a single Snow Bunting.

                Totals of other things included 17 Bar-tailed Godwits, 40 Sanderling, 2 adult Whooper Swans, 75+ Redshank and 100+ Wigeon.

Despite the crazy winds the Fulmars were still having fun!