Monday, 29 May 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 27th May

Another fine, sunny day with an increasing SE wind and it was all about the quality rather than quantity round the west coast census route with the highlight being a Nightingale I found in the punds at the northern end of Torness; it was a tricky bird in the field and I called it a probable Thrush Nightingale but we put up a net and easily caught it and it was pretty straightforward in the hand!

                Other birds included a female Bluethroat along walls on the opposite side of Torness, a very late Woodcock in the same place, a female Pied Flycatcher which I caught in T5 and a Whimbrel.

Nightingale

Big gangs of adolescent Starlings are roaming the countryside now!



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