2nd-9th August
Well as you can probably tell from the lack of the blog posts recently we're playing catch up a bit after a whirlwind week. I'll take you through from the start and what it's entailed! The 2nd started pretty normally, and we decided as group we'd go up mop up on some the Tystie and Tern chicks left around the island. We headed off to Gue Park first, quickly finding that the Tern colony there had finished for the year and most the birds had moved out. We moved onto Trinley and made swift progress finding no further Tystie chicks and with rain showers coming in we abandoned our search. It was about lunchtime now, and thoughts had moved on to just that. As we passed the fence that runs from the road opposite Nether Linnay and along the back of Burray, I caught sight of a bird that made me double take, all I saw was a silhouetted tail and body, but it was an odd but familiar shape... I think the exact quote was: "Stop the car..... That's the Blue-cheeked Bee-eater...
