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| Barred warbler |
Our first full day on Shetland started at Lerwick Harbour looking
for mine and Dads first ever Black guillemots, and after about 5 seconds
of searching for them they were every were and
you couldn't miss them such an amazing bird, other birds on note were
lots of Eiders, Shags and some Gannets flying around a few seals were also in the harbour.
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| Yellow browed warbler |
From here we decided to head to Boddham to check out
some of the gardens, there were a few people already there checking them out, they had a Barred warbler in the
first garden , so we decided to stick around and try to relocate it , and after a few
second it flew on top of a bush and showed its self before it flew down
on to a stone wall were it showed well for a few minutes before it went into a
bush and became very elusive, we then got a text from my friend Ashley Powell who
told us there was a Yellow browed warbler in grutness garden.
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| Lesser grey shrike |
We were down there in a flash and were on the bird straight away
it was showing really well sitting out in the open and even went on
the ground it was such a showy bird i also had a Goldcrest,
Starlings, Bronxie over and a Shetland wren around the area, the news then
broke of a Lesser grey shrike in Laxo we followed our friend Andy p because he
new were the bird was getting seen we were at the site in less then 45 minutes,
when we arrived somebody had just relocated it and we all got on the
bird before it flew of further, after about 5 minutes the bird was
relocated again and was showing really well for about 30 minutes before it flew
further up the path sitting on telegraph wires.
From here we headed down to vidlin to try and see some Otters but
we were out of luck but we did have an Arctic tern and some Herring
and lesser black backed gulls and some hooded crows around from here we
headed home and after a first day were are very happy
other birds seen
female merlin
twite
snipe 6
Wheatears
willow warbler 1
ravens
golden plover 15
kestrel 1
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| Yellow browed warbler |
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| Yellow browed warbler |
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| Lesser grey shrike |
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| Artic tern |
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