Sunday, 12 March 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 12th March


Thick fog that kept coming and going through most of the day was thankfully much lighter at the north end of the island allowing me to see the day’s highlight of a Sooty Shearwater passing the seawatch hide – a fantastically early record, possibly the first ever in March (maybe the same bird that was seen at Spurn last week leaving the North Sea!).

                Other birds seen in the murk included the drake Smew with 9 Goldeneye, a Jack Snipe flushed from behind a wall, 3 Snow Buntings, 4 Fieldfares, 120+ Purple Sandpipers and a Pied Wagtail.

Smew

Snow Bunting

Purple Sandpipers

Skylark


Jack Snipe

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