After a week's absence the
BUFF-BELLIED PIPIT reappeared sheltering along the stone dyke again by Neven. The few notable new arrivals today were a reed warbler at Westness,
spotted flycatcher at Shooting Gallery,
chiffchaff at Burray,
common sandpiper and
swallow at Bridesness and a
blackcap in Holland along with the
2 chiffchaff,
2 robin and
2 goldcrest. Thrushes consisted of
4 song thrush,
79 redwing and
46 blackbird, and finches of
1 siskin and
25 brambling. The
whinchat was still near Hooking with a
lapland bunting there also, and the day's
snow bunting tally was
67.
23 whooper swan were on Ancum and
greylag geese were again on the move with
715 passing through, whilst
barnacle geese had dwindled to just
4. A minimum of
5 merlin were noted with 3 coming in off the sea, the
2 grey plover were at Haskie and
1059 golden plover is the highest count so far this month, as was
snipe with
178.