I'm always looking on Papay, but despite being closer to North Ron, we still don't seem to get many of their nice birds. I spent a good long while looking for...
I'm always looking on Papay, but despite being closer to North Ron, we still don't seem to get many of their nice birds. I spent a good long while looking for...
Hi Sarah Do persist, Papay does get the birds but they are just a bit harder to locate. To be honest it's not easy on North Ron either but there are at least...
Chiffchaff singing at Stembister plantation. 2 spotted flycatchers by the big house at Braebuster. I couldn't spot any migrants around Halley & Keigar. No...
Hi Sarah I'd echo Martin's comments - you do need a bit of luck as well. Me and my 8 year old spent a good couple of hours searching for shrikes on S Ron,...
A male in scrub willow beside road at Wideford Burn and a female in rosa rugosa near Quoykea,Toab in the last hour. Also singing Whitethroats at Wideford Burn...
It's a bit like the old question of a tree falling in the forest when there's nobody around and whether it makes any noise. Migration ought to be thin by the...
A Curlew Sandpiper was at the rapidly diminishing seasonal pool at Burray cemetery this afternoon. Also at the pool were 9 Dunlin and 24 Ringed Plover.  ...
Just back from the RSPB Local Group trip to Auskerry - glorious day! Best bird of the day was the male red backed shrike at the house. There was also a...
Seeing Arctic Skuas regularly at various points on the island eg 5 bathing in Burness Loch a couple of days ago. Watched one up at Noup today eating Common...
I found a lark sized pipit today at Unston, Stenness. The bird was perched on an overhead wire. Obvious was it's very long hind claws. Fairly well spotted or...
Malcolm, Would almost certainly be Richards Pipit - the very long hind claws are indicative of Richards and tend to rule out Blyths and Tawny. Cheers, Paul...
This isn't Paul - it's Jan.... so sorry if I'm posting something that I shouldn't be ! He's at work & I can't get hold of him... At 10.20, phone call to me...
The Curlew Sandpiper was still at Burray Cemetery this morning. Picture uploaded, though Morris was also taking pictures, so better to come. Â Barrie The...
I am inclined to support Alastair's pronouncement on this bird. Dick's Pipit should show buffy flanks with no streaking but this bird appears to have white...
a cuckoo has just flown past here calling & after doing a couple of circuits was pursued by a skylark forcing it down & looking like it was actually hitting...
Thanks for the encouragement, I'm still hopeful that I'll see a Shrike soon! Or anything good for that matter! A visitor did report seeing a Bee-eater here...
Thanks everyone for their help with this one. Â I think it is a case of "size matters" . My pipit was big. Skylark sized. At first sighting I thought it was a...
Pair of Shelduck had 6 ducklings in pool north of the Upper Twatt road, first I've seen this year, and the second singing sedge warbler in the millstream scrub...
Thanks Alastair yes these comments are very helpful and I am sure you are right. I shall just have to look again in the hope of finding one and get it right...
