24th September
A great day with the autumn finally kicking off with a
good variety of passerine arrivals through the day; we kept the very strong SSE winds with rain at dawn and a few
spots throughout the rest of the day but the wind must have been coming from
further away today and not just from Fraserburgh, as the highlights comprised a
flighty OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT in the Docks and grass around Longar and a fine
Little Bunting on the beach at Garso.
The
accompanying cast included the first 3 Redwings, 3 Bramblings and 2 Chaffinch of the
autumn, a Grasshopper Warbler which gave us the run around for a while before
being confirmed, 2 Grey Wagtails, 3 Yellow-browed Warblers, 3 Robins, 2 Garden
Warbler, 2 Blackcaps, a Spotted Flycatcher, a Chiffchaff, 6 Willow Warblers, 4 Mealy
Redpolls, 4 Lapland Buntings, a Snow Bunting and 2 Kestrels.
Other
birds included a Little Stint on Gretchen, a Curlew Sandpiper on Bewan, a
Greenshank which flew south down the west coast, a Jack Snipe, a Grey Plover, 6
Red-throated Diver, a Great-northern Diver and single Arctic Tern and Great
Skua offshore.
Olive-backed Pipit, George Gay
Little Bunting, George Gay
Common Redpoll, Simon Davies
Spotted Flycatcher with Devil's Coach Horse, Simon Davies
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