Friday, 2 June 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 1st June


A damp, overcast day with light easterly winds and the Hooking census route produced very little with much reduced wader numbers on The Links including a Bar-tailed Godwit and 60 Sanderling.   An early evening ringing session just produced a new Robin (with a brood patch) and a re-trap Garden Warbler before a very smart looking, small, dark backed Lesser Black-backed Gull was on the bare field south of Holland which showed many features of a near-adult Baltic Gull.



Probable Baltic Gull, although because of overlap with intermedius birds it can never be proved without a darvic ring from their breeding grounds!






Territorial Shelduck

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