Wednesday, 12 September 2007

12/9/07 Westing


Curlew 50

Baltasound School
Marsh Warbler 1 ex. Completely pale. Supercilium reaching eye. Crown olive-green. Throat white. Slightly sullied grey on breast-sides and flanks. Olive-green mantle extending onto rump. Dark tail. Tertials dark-centred with broad pale fringes. Very long primary projection (longer than exposed tertials) with pale tips to primaries visible. Undertail coverts long and whitish. Belly whitish. Strong legs greyish with some yellow. Pale eye-ring. Greyish iris. Rump concolourous with mantle.
Willow Warbler 1

Skaw
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Greenland Redpoll 1 ex.

Lamba Ness
Sooty Shearwater 3N at 4.35, 4.58 and 5.16
Snow Bunting 1

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

11/9/07 Westing W3-4


Shag 140
Gannet 10
Greylag Goose 13
Mallard 9
Redshank 4
Turnstone 2
Curlew 27
Oystercatcher 2
Golden Plover 8
Lapwing 32
Snipe 2
Common Gull 2
Herring Gull 2
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Bonxie 1
Rock Dove 2
Skylark 1
Wheatear 1
Blackbird 1
Wren 1
Meadow Pipit 16
Rock Pipit 1
Starling 12
Hooded Crow 2
Raven 3
Twite 10

Baltasound
Rose-coloured Starling 1 adult

Norwick
Twite 2

Uyeasound
Curlew 200

Monday, 10 September 2007

10/9/07 NW8 Lamba Ness


Fulmar 8,000N
Gannet 10,000N
Sooty Shearwater 9N at 10.35, 12.23, 2.00, 2.17, 2.40, 2.56, 3.37, 4.19 and 4.28
Great Shearwater 3N at 12.02, 2.10 and 2.35.
Arctic Skua 1S
Bonxie 250N

Norwick
Swallow 1
Willow Warbler 2

Skaw
Black-tailed Godwit 2

Haroldswick
Golden Plover 100
Lapwing 30

Sunday, 9 September 2007

9/9/07 Westing, Unst W3 Overcast and drizzle


Whooper Swan 1
Greylag Goose 23
Curlew 25
Snipe 7
Redshank 4
Lapwing 30
Turnstone 2
Golden Plover 6N
Oystercatcher 2
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Common Gull 1
Bonxie 1
Rock Dove 5
Meadow Pipit 2
Wren 1
Starling 201
Raven 1
Twite 10

Baltasound
Lapwing 3
Merlin 1
Wood Pigeon 2
Collared Dove 2
Wren 1
Starling 300
Lesser Whitethroat 1

Saturday, 8 September 2007

8/9/07 Skaw, Unst


Sanderling 3
Common Rosefinch 1 1w

Norwick

Meadow Pipit 8S
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Willow Warbler 1

Baltasound School
Starling 300

Friday, 7 September 2007

7/9/07 Girdleness 6am


Red-throated Diver 2S
Manx Shearwater 17N, 2S
Sooty Shearwater 3N, 1S
Knot 2
Arctic Tern 10S
Arctic Skua 1 ad L/P N
Bonxie 1N
Swallow 1S
Meadow Pipit 5

Ythan Estuary

Red-throated Diver 1
Pintail 2
Eider 500
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Osprey 1
Knot 262
Greenshank 5
Whimbrel 1
Dunlin 100
Sanderling 20 

Northlink 7pm sailing

Storm Petrel 2
Arctic Skua 3

Monday, 27 August 2007

27/8/07 Beachy N2


Gannet 1
Grey Heron 1
Sparrowhawk 2
Kestrel 1
Oystercatcher 10
Snipe 1
Stock Dove 1
Feral Pigeon 6W
Green Woodpecker 3
Wryneck 1 Cow Gap Gulley, 1 between Old Trapping Area and Hotel Garden
Swallow 20
Sand Martin 7
Wheatear 8
Whinchat 2
Redstart 4
Robin 4
Song Thrush 1
Meadow Pipit 6, 2E
Yellow Wagtail 67
Grey Wagtail 1E
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Whitethroat 15
Lesser Whitethroat 2
Willow Warbler 21
Red-backed Shrike 1 juv. between Old Trapping Area and Hotel Garden
Pied Flycatcher 3