Monday 1 October 2012

Shetland Day 3

Another day of South Westerlies started at Hoswick for another look at the Siberian Stonechat.

News that the Buff Bellied Pipit had been refound at Scousburgh Sands was the next obvious place to go and sure enough:

Buff Bellied Pipit




















A Lifer - Wohoo


























Distinctive bird wth pale lores and eyering.

The bay also held 4 Great Northern Diver as well as Bonxie and Kittiwake. Being sheltered from the wind it was also quite photogenic:

Loch of Spiggie was also close by and held 2 Whooper Swan and Barnacle Goose.
 
Loch of Spiggie
 Onwards to Quendale I spent quite a time unsucessfully trying to photograph a Yellow Browed Warbler, a Spot Fly was a bit more obliging:
 

With confirmation of a Pechora Pipit on Unst, it was off to Scotland's most Northerly outpost tomorrow.

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