22nd May

With the wind now originating from the south it felt as though there was good chance of a few migrants in the field despite the ever increasing wind speed. 

The morning started with one of the Cuckoos that had been present the previous day now hanging around the obs trapping area, but evading the Heligolands as they so often do!

A Dunnock was in the gardens at Holland House and the Redwing at Ancum was still singing at every opportunity. A couple of groups of House Martins were seen around with numbers totalling up 7 birds and a lone male Siskin was in the Post Office garden. The highlights for the day were a rather flighty Reed Warbler in the punds at Westness, as per usual it was flushed from a patch of dense scrub and didn't show very well! The big news however was a Spoonbill seen flying South over Ancum, the bird was seen coming in off the sea and appeared to land but a frantic search threw nothing up, the bird had clearly kept going! This represents the second island record the first being in 2013 at Hooking. Finally a 2CY Little Gull was over the School Brae during the evening search for the Spoonbill.

Spoonbill                                                                  GG