March 24, 2005
Migrants at last!
(NB - for those looking for the Little Auk / Gyr Falcon image - click here)
Great to see I'm still an accurate soothsayer where this birding business is concerned - the day after my hopeful plea for a Wheatear, driving along the island, what should flick up off the road in front of me but a Wheatear? Damn, I'm good!
Yesterday was a glorious spring day, 14 deg C and sunny with the wind coming from the SSE. Migrants! Came back home in the evening to find a female Stonechat on the fence below us (a new bird for the croft list, no less). This morning I left the house early to have a go at the plantation on my way down the island, and could hear a Song Thrush calling. Also a Chiffchaff today.
B had a few Goldcrests there yesterday, so we're getting as much as anywhere on Shetland just at the moment. Give it a month and I'll be starting to expect some sort of exotic overshoot... last year's Sardinian Warbler was all very well, but I'd much prefer a Ruppell's (which won't bother JL as he's already found one on the island), or better yet an Orphean.
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