Tuesday, 12 September 2017

NORTH RONALDSAY - 8th September


After morning drizzle passed through it was a stunning, warm, sunny day with the nets first thing producing just re-trap birds including Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff and 3 Willow Warblers before birds around the northern census route included a juvenile Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Lapland Bunting, a flava Wagtail by the Beacon (probably a Blue-headed), 2 Goldcrests, a Willow Warbler, a summer plumaged Great-northern Diver offshore, 11 Black-tailed Godwits and a notable influx of 65 Wheatears.

                There was a Fulmar stranding in the traditional field at Brides in the afternoon and we ringed 77 new birds along with a re-trap that was ringed as a chick in 2014.

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