1st January to 3rd March
With various staff back over the past few weeks it feels about the right time to get the blog up and running again. Everything ended quite abruptly back in November, a system of foggy weather rolled in and with folk going away for the winter and chartered launch coming to the island most of the jumped on departed ahead of schedule, leaving just Craig behind, he made his way off island a few days later. George and Maddy headed out to Kenya to do a spot of ringing at N’Gulia and early in the new year Alison headed over to New Zealand. Anyway, enough of our jet-setting! It’s probably been one of the wettest winters on North Ronaldsay I’ve known and we missed half of it! The year was kicked off with the usual bits and bobs you’d expect here in winter, and that isn’t very much, however a 1st Winter Glaucous Gull was at Westness on 4th and the following day saw an overwintering Long-eared Owl emerge from Holland and four Little Auk pass the Lighthouse. A second Glaucous Gull of the year...
