13/9/2008 Seafield, Lerwick, Shetland SSE7

Yellow Wagtail 1
Common Redstart 5
Blackcap 3
Garden Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 5
Pied Flycatcher 2

Vidlin

Common Redstart 1
Song Thrush 1
Willow Warbler 4
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Pied Flycatcher 2

Out Skerries SSE6

Greylag Goose 5
Wigeon 10
Grey Heron 18
Kestrel 1
Little Stint 2
Redshank 1
Ruff 4
Snipe 5
Curlew 2
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Gull 1
Skylark 1
Swallow 1
Tree Pipit 12
Yellow Wagtail 5
White Wagtail 1
Robin 4
Common Redstart 20
Whinchat 23
Wheatear 10
Blackbird 1
Song Thrush 13
Grasshopper Warbler 1 ringed
Reed Warbler 3
Blackcap 7
Garden Warbler 4
Lesser Whitethroat 2
Whitethroat 2
Willow Warbler 25
Spotted Flycatcher 2
Pied Flycatcher 1
Red-backed Shirke 1 juvenile George’s garden
Twite 1
Reed Bunting 1

Male Common Redstart on Out Skerries

Spotted Flycatchers on Out Skerries

12/9/2008 Ythan Estuary SE 1

Pale-bellied Brent Goose 1

Red-breasted Merganser 3
Slavonian Grebe 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
GREATER SANDPLOVER 1 1^st-summer thought we'd check the Ythan Dunlin flock in case it was playing host to a White-rumped Sandpiper and found this instead!
Ringed Plover 30
Dunlin c.150

Greater Sandplover at the Ythan Estuary

31/8/08 Beachy Calm with thunderstorm

Hobby 1

Sand Martin 10
Swallow 20
Yellow Wagtail 2
Grey Wagtail 1
Tree Pipit h
Wheatear 2
Sedge Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 10
Spotted Flycatcher 2

30/8/08 Beachy SE2

Marsh Harrier 1

Honey Buzzard 1 ad. female Hollow
Sparrowhawk 2
Peregrine 1
Swallow 44
House Martin 25
Sand Martin 52
Yellow Wagtail 18
Tree Pipit 3
Redstart 1
Wheatear 6
Whinchat 7
Willow Warbler 4
Whitethroat 13
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Blackcap 1
Spotted Flycatcher 3

26/8/08 English Channel

Gannet 10

Sooty Shearwater 1
Storm Petrel 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull 10
Ringed Plover 1
Bonxie 4

25/8/08 Bilbao

Buzzard 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull 6
Yellow-legged Gull 150
Black-headed Gull 6
Red-rumped Swallow 1 juv.
Blackbird 1
Tree Pipit 3
Black Redstart 3
Dunnock 1
Wren h

Pied Flycatcher 2

Red-backed Shrike 5
Fan-tailed Warbler 2
Sardinian Warbler 5
Garden Warbler 1
Blackcap 2
Melodious Warbler 4
Willow Warbler 5
Firecrest 2
Greenfinch 2
Serin 6
Cirl Bunting 6
Magpie 10

Sailing north from Bilbao

Gannet 1
Manx Shearwater 1
LITTLE SHEARWATER 7 ex.
Sooty Shearwater 2
Cory’s Shearwater 1
Black Tern 5
Commic Tern 6
Sabine’s Gull 26
Arctic Skua 15
Bottlenose Dolphin 12
Striped Dolphin 20
Sunfish 1
Fin Whale 20
Cuvier’s Beaked Whale 3
Long-finned Pilot Whale 6

24/8/08 Off Channel Islands to rounding Ouessant

Gannet 50

Fulmar 7
Manx Shearwater 5
Balearic Shearwater 3
Sooty Shearwater 2
Cory’s Shearwater 1
Storm Petrel 10
Bonxie 6
Lesser Black-backed Gull 15
Greater Black-backed Gull 1
Black-headed Gull 1
Sabine’s Gull 3 Ad.
Arctic Skua 1
Commic Tern 3
Common Tern 20
Arctic Tern 1
Grey Phalarope 1 w/p
Sunfish 4
Common Dolphin 40
Fin Whale 15
Sperm Whale 2