A beautiful calm, sunny and warm day to be out birding all day. A walk around Norwick produced 4 Purple Sandpipers, 6 Robins, a Dunnock, 12 Redwing, 2 Blackcaps, 2 Chiffchaffs, a Siberian Chiffchaff, 6 Goldcrests, 7 Chaffinches and a Brambling. A look at Lamba Ness added a Great Northern Diver flying south, a Pink-footed Goose, a Peregrine, a Merlin, a juvenile Glaucous Gull, 5 Fieldfares and 12 Snow Buntings. Skaw added a Barnacle Goose, a Blackcap and 15 Snow Buntings. Burrafirth was playing host to a Great Northern Diver, 2 Long-tailed Duck, a female Scaup, a male Merlin, 10 Fieldfare and 5 Redwing. A look around Haroldswick added a Merlin, 20 Fieldfares and 20 Redwings.
Blackcap at Norwick
Chiffchaff at Norwick
Siberian Chiffchaff at Norwick
Snow Buntings on Lamba Ness
Redwing at Lamba Ness
Barnacle Goose at Skaw
Scaup at Loch of Cliff
Male Merlin near Burrafirth
