10th May

Stunning again, literally flat calm through most of the day, making it feel very warm in the bright sunshine; the day’s two highlights consisted of a male Dotterel on Westbeach and a sub-adult White-tailed Eagle which flew in over the sea from the direction of Westray, cut across the middle of the island and presumably kept powering north – amazingly our fourth of the spring!

                Other birds included 26 Great-northern Divers, a Black-tailed Godwit, an increase to 40+ Swallows, 4 Robins, 54 Wheatears, 2 Blackcaps, 2 Willow Warblers, a Carrion Crow, a single Tree Sparrow at Holland – the first of the year, a Brambling and a Common Redpoll.

Arctic Tern