Thursday, 28 September 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 27th September

The marvellous SE winds continued to blow across the island and it stayed dry again throughout the day; the Obs census route was highlighted by a Marsh Warbler on the inside of the dyke just down from the Obs, near the pier and best of all an Olive-backed Pipit which turned up around the traps in the afternoon and was eventually pushed into T2 to be ringed by me – a great ringing tick!

                Other birds (including a few nets open at Holland in the evening) comprised the first Woodcock of the autumn flushed from the back of Nouster, a Yellow-browed Warbler still in Holland, 2 Blackcaps, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Garden Warbler, 2 Goldcrests, 6 Song Thrushes, 2 Redwings, 2 Chaffinches and a Brambling.


Olive-backed Pipit



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