The springs first
sparrowhawk was in Holland early morning, and
38 curlew flew through north in small groups. A
sandwich tern was in Nouster Bay as were
2 glaucous gulls, and the
woodpigeon was still present at the Surgery. There was a fair scattering of
wheatears with
24, plus
2 goldcrest, a
jackdaw and a
robin, but the afternoon certainly had more quality with an immature
white-billed diver off the north end, and the relocation of the
ring-necked duck, now alone on Trollavatn Loch. Whilst watching the diver a
bonxie and a
manx shearwater passed by at sea, a
grey plover flew over and notable on a local scale,
2 stock dove bottled the flight to Fair Isle.