Having made the trek out west to Flubersgerdie on three out of the last five days hoping to benefit from it being peak passage time for White-billed Divers, but without any success, I decided to take it easy this morning. A female Blackcap was briefly in our rosa and with binoculars in hand I scanned the wick from our kitchen window. I could see a large Diver sat on the sea so decided to brave the elements and scope it. As expected, it was a Great Northern Diver, I scanned to the east and soon saw another Great Northern Diver, I continued scanning and there was a superb summer-plumaged adult White-billed Diver - stunning! It spent most of its time closer to Lamba Ness, so rather distant from here, but I'm not complaining! On moving-up here, Mark Chapman told me that it was only a matter of time before I would find a White-billed Diver from our kitchen window by just keep checking 'our' voe - it took just a few days over 3 years! Robbie was delighted with it being an Unst tick for him after 10 years of waiting.
White-billed Diver off Millfield
The fifth White-billed Diver I've found on Unst with the other Spring birds being on 28/4, 30/4 & 5/5.
