October 21, 2004
Whether the weather?
Am feeling suitably inspired by the weather (south-easterlies backing easterly, and dropping off conveniently by Saturday) to include a weather link on here for all those who want to know what's happening on Shetland for the next 48 hours - okay, so maybe of limited use if you're not here or planning on coming here, but the site in question seems to be as accurate a forecast as you're likely to get, and you can select your own area... See the Weather Starling down below! In fact Metcheck have been spot-on all autumn for Shetland, which is pretty impressive given how much weather we get, so can't really think of a better endorsement.
The flood of northern Bullfinches continues unabated, but it seems my Good Vomithard sighting of a Woodcock zooming south was something of an omen, as there were a couple on Fair Isle yesterday, and far more importantly, one feeding amongst my chickens yesterday afternoon. Haven't gone to the trouble of working out the croft list yet, but it must be starting to get fairly respectable. Three species of shrike goes a long way towards making up for a lack of bread-and-butter Blue Tits etc!
The current weather bodes well for one last good bird on our island, JL is off the fishing for the next few days, and best omen of all, B is away for the next week or so... If ever fate was to serve up a good bird, it must surely favour when one of the resident birders is away?!
