Friday, 10 March 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 10th March


A dramatic change in the weather produced a flat calm, cloudy morning so we were up at Holland with the nets first thing where we caught 2 more Snipe, a Woodpigeon, a Blackbird and a couple of Wrens.

                I then walked the west coast census route where the highlights were the drake Green-winged Teal which reappeared on Gretchen to display to some Teal – absent since 24th February (presumably the same bird!), the Northern Harrier which did a couple of distant fly-bys and the big, pale 2nd winter Glaucous Gull.   Other birds included a Snow Bunting on Torness, 6 Red-throated Divers, a Fieldfare, a Pied Wagtail, 65+ Skylarks in the stubble field at Nether Linney and a female Stonechat by Trebb.

                There was a Stock Dove at the bottom of the Obs track in the afternoon – a very scarce, not annual vagrant on here!






Glaucous Gull

Green-winged Teal record shot

Stonechat

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