October 01, 2004
Anticipation
Okay, tomorrow is going to be a big day. Spent all of today being a Good Employee and wearing a suit etc, while all the meantime the wind was screaming out of the south east and birds were arriving on all the islands. Skerries had a White's Thrush to add to Short-toed Lark, Richard's Pipit, Bluethroat, Siberian Stonechat... Foula a pair of Pallas's Grasshopper Warblers (already on my croft list, but finding my own would be even nicer!), Pallid Harrier on Bressay, Yellow-breasted Bunting at Toab, American Goldie and Buff-breasted Sand on Fetlar... the list goes on. JL is away at the fishing, so I spent the whole day expecting a text from B to say he'd found something.
Secretly, selfishly quite pleased to find B in the queue for the ferry this evening - he'd been away all day on Mainland, so hadn't been birding on the island. Which means at first light tomorrow it's all evens, and the birds are there for the finding. If I can't turn something up it's a pretty poor show. JL back tomorrow at some point, so between us there's a BB rarity to be found. Definitely my turn!!
JL found a nice bright Yellow-browed Warbler near the school on Wednesday, my first of the autumn. Hopefully tomorrow won't end up with me pleading the fates for one of those by the end of the day...
Posted by Stercorarius at October 1, 2004 10:32 PMwait with baited breath!
Posted by: alanh at October 2, 2004 03:32 AM