17th-20th January

The weather has been pretty lousy over the last few days with the relentless south-easterly wind making walking difficult and often heavy periods of rain leaving the ground saturated. The 17th and 19th were spent drinking tea, ticking off a few maintenance jobs and working through the office paperwork. Highlights of the period were few and far between with the same juvenile Glaucous Gull at Bridesness on 20th and 27 Black-tailed Godwits still there on 18th. An adult Peregrine roamed the Island that day and presumably the same 4 Snow Buntings were seen on both dates.