A great day with the autumn finally kicking off with a
good variety of new birds; it was still a very strong SSE wind with rain at
dawn and the occasional few spots through the day, I was for once on the right
census route as birds up the west coast included 2 Yellow-browed
Warblers, 2 Grey Wagtails, a Grasshopper Warbler which gave me the run
around for a good while at Trebb, a Spotted Flycatcher, the first Redwing and 2 Bramblings of the
autumn, a Garden Warbler, a Mealy Redpoll, 11 Rock Pipits, 4 Lapland Buntings
and my first Snow Bunting of the autumn.
Other birds included a Little Stint and 9 Black-tailed Godwits on
Gretchen, a Greenshank which flew south and single Great-northern Diver, Arctic
Tern and Bonxie offshore.
The
day’s highlight came late afternoon when we had good if brief views of a very
flighty OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT in the Docks and grass around Longar. I then had a very successful dazzling trip
to Gretchen in the evening as I managed to catch 3 Ruff and a Little Stint
amongst some other waders.
Mealy Redpoll
Spotted Flycatcher with a Devil's Coach Horse
Black-tailed Godwit
Redwing
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