Sea on Saturday at Point of Buckquoy, Birsay
View from the garden, yeserday p.m, calm before the hooley
It really blew last night, up to Storm Force 11 (yes the greenhouse was still there this morn).JB and I had seen the forecast so arranged to meet at Pt of Buckquoy at 8 or so. It was quite entertaining, I missed the best bird, a Pom, somehow it evaded me but 8 Blue Fulmars and 18 Red-throated Divers was a fair reward. In the first hour there were 124 Kittiwakes, nearly all adults (10 juv) and just 37 Fulmar. In the second hour there were about 50 Kittiwakes and 3000 Fulmars, all west. Also one each of GND, LtD, RbM, Wigeon, and two Common Scoter.
Back at the ranch the moving of horse poo was the task but there were also 18 Fieldfare over south, a few Redwings, 15 Blackbirds, 2 Robins, 6 Chaffinch, 2 reed Buntings, 100 Teal, a Sproghawk and a Kestrel. The Tree Sparrow is still present.
2 comments:
What is a sproghhawk? I have written a stonechat poem. Love the wild sea photo.
Sproghawk is Sparrowhawk. Birders have lots of slang names for bird species. I'll go and read your Stonechat piem, unfortunately they've died out here on West Mainland, the last two hard winters did for them, previously they were a garden bird.
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