Wednesday 23 January 2019

23rd January 2019 Unst W1 Clear

After a frosty dawn with some black ice it soon became a beautiful clear sunny day feeling almost Spring-like with Starlings singing. A walk along Norwick beach produced a juvenile and a second-winter Glaucous Gull among the masses of Gulls feeding on what appeared to be thousands of small maggots along the tideline. We then drove south stopping to scan the flock of Gulls feeding in a similar manner at Haroldswick. Next stop was Lund where we walked out to The Nev scanning the wick and enjoying the views of west Unst. We then toured the Uyeasound sites with Goldeneye displaying in the sunshine now back on Easter Loch that is again clear of ice.


View of west Unst with Flubersgerdie in the distance

Lunda Wick

Distant trio of Red-throated Divers in Lunda Wick
Winter records only became annual on Unst from 1998 per Birds of Shetland

Pair of Common Goldeneye at Easter Loch