North Ronaldsay

A few days on North Ron to celebrate a friends birthday and to do a bit of birding.

We stayed the first night at the south end, in the bird observatory and then moved to the lighthouse cottages.

Sea watching was good to start with Little Auks and Sooty Shears which I didn't photograph. I did photograph some gulls passing though.

Great Black-backed Gulls

Brown sea gulls

Herring Gull

 Nice big moth light

 There was Rosy Rustic, Large Yellow Underwing, Depressaria radiella mostly on the window ledges on the way up, not sure how they got in there. Surprisingly the bulb is less than 300W.

Croues, the round structures were built to keep the frost and wind off young cabbage plants.

Trolla

 Purple Sands

Ringed Plovers

Snow Buntings

Old Light

North Ronaldsay sheep, broken boat

There was a Bluethroat around here somewherewe couldn't find it though.

This may be Eupeodes luniger but unfortunately unidentifiable to species, it's slightly odd.

Later in the week there were lots of redpolls including some Arctic type things, but I was back to work by then.