Well this turned out absolutely brilliant as far as the weather was concerned. Who wants to listen to the MET office anyway. Spent some 7 hours on the islands and despite it being an odd place it drew some stuff. We spent an hour with the ringing group and saw BLACKCAP, MEADOW PIPIT, ROBIN, WREN, DUNNOCK,CHAFFINCH rung. In all we made 65 species in the day the best as follows. 1 female MERLIN. This bird was on the ground and then took to the air. BLACK REDSTART. We either picked up with the same bird twice or there was two. My feeling is that it was the same one which was flitting about the coastguard station and then around the steel dump. We also had an ARCTIC SKUA not far out along the foreshore. BRAMBLING gave us a close meeting when it decided to hide away at a walk junction in a small piece of growth. The question is out on a bird which for everything looked like a RAVEN flew in off the sea and strait through onto land. This bird seemed small tailed but very odd wing shape. Like it was strait at the back and pointed. So conclusion must being seeing so large that it was as stated. Evidently they seem to be around Sizwall so who knows. The best show was the four RING OUZAL'S that had taken to berries and what a show these birds where. It could be that these where not British birds, as the distinct plumage was from Europe. Could it be that these birds have a European context and fit into the alpineas sub more than the Turdus torquatus. Pleas make a comment as I would be interested.
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