15th September

Still super windy, with the blazing westerly wind dominating everyone’s conversations and making any trip out into the field a bit of a mission; there were some birds though as totals included 2 Red-throated Divers, 2 Great-northern Divers, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, a good count of 645 Pink-footed Geese with a big grounded flock at Brides, a Red-breasted Merganser, single Hen Harrier and Peregrine, 5 Black-tailed Godwits, single Arctic Tern and Arctic Skua, a Sand Martin, 25 Wheatears and 2 Lapland Buntings on The Links.