SHETLAND BIRD NEWS & MORE!

THURSDAY 8th OCTOBER

Rare  Bird  Alert  News

MAINLAND

Common Rosefinches x 2, Quail in cereal crop, American Wigeon ad. drk, Scaup at Loch of Spiggie.

Red-backed Shrike in nettles at Burn of Scousburgh.

Pallid Harrier juv. flew over Harbro Country Store, Olive-backed Pipit at north end of Loch of Clickimin, Lerwick.

Yellow-browed Warbler at Wethersta Plantation, Yellow-browed Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff in plantation just east of Valleyfield Guesthouse, south of Brae.

Western Bonelli's Warbler in garden just east of Skelberry, NE of Boddam.

Arctic Warbler 1w. in garden of pink house at top of hill, east of road at Fladdabister.

Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Sandvoe, North Roe.

Yellow-browed Warbler at Da Gairdins, Sand.

Bluethroat on waste ground opposite roofers at Boddam.

EASTERN STONECHAT sp. (probably Western Siberian Stonechat) 1w still at pumping station, Levenwick. 

LANCEOLATED WARBLER trapped and ringed in garden at Sumburgh Hotel.

Quails x 2 in wet field at Aith, Cunningsburgh.

Yellow-browed Warbler at Ocraquoy.

Red-breasted Flycatcher in garden near crossroads at Exnaboe.

Bluethroat at Vatnagarth, Fleck.  

Radde's Warbler in small walled compound, 100yds west of Haa Museum, Tangwick, south of Eshaness.

Curlew Sandpiper at Pool of Virkie.

Yellow-browed Warbler at Grutness.

Barred Warbler in garden south of Kirkabister self-catering cottage, Vidlin.  

Yellow-browed Warbler at Maywick.

Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 in gardens at Hillswick.

Yellow-browed Warbler at Toab.

BLACK-FACED BUNTING 1w. at Quendale Mill.

Red-breasted Flycatcher briefly in garden at Ladysmith Road, Scalloway    

ISLANDS

PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER WARBLER at road verges between bus shelter and Valyie, Pallid Harrier juv. at north end of Loch of Cliff, UNST. 

Yellow-browed Warbler at Sound West Yell, YELL.

Richard's Pipit still on OUT SKERRIES. 

 

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South east winds bring more megas to Shetland today. Continues east until 9am on Friday, heavy rain and then north westerlies for the rest of the day. Now on holiday for two weeks!