Birding

A couple of days spent going birding a fair bit and taking a load of photos. Autumn has arrived, the trickle of Redwing from Wednesday turned into a rush on Saturday and continued today. Louise had two Hawfinches in the garden on Friday, I dipped. However, a Yellow-browed Warbler on both Saturday and Sunday made up for it and a nice Med Gull at Palace was a reward for scanning through the gulls. NFY in the garden was Blackcap, sadly dead at Northside was a Storm Petrel.

 Eider feeding close inshore.

 Part of the mass of gulls, also feeding on the kelp and other seaweeds blown inshore.

 In the end I decided that this Med Gull was a 1cy, it is suggested that the lesser and median coverts are hidden by the scapulars.

Old hoose, Northside.

Sunday morning before the cloud cleared.

Bosquoy sheds

 Sycamore leaves with a little Rhytisma acerinum.

Sycamore trunk with Nectria cinnabarina.

 

 Redwing, no pictures of the Yellow-browed Warbler, autofocus refused to get it sharp and I was too slow with the manual focus.

Yesnaby, Sunday p.m.

Sunday evening.

The actinic is out, it is a tad cool but a single Brindled Ochre early evening might promise better things (like the probable Chestnut that I allowed to escape the other evening).