Rare Bird Alert News
Hawfinch fem. in garden at Scalloway. Wood Warbler at Hillwell. Wood Warblers x 7, Pied Flycatchers x 5 between Helendale and Sound, Icterine Warbler at Helendale, Red-backed Shrike male at Helendale House, Lerwick. Pied Flycatcher in garden at Sandwick. Eastern Subalpine Warbler late evening in roses by Quendale Mill.
Icterine Warbler, Wood Warblers x 2 at Cullivoe, Yell.
Thrush Nightingale in garden at Symbister (for 3rd day), Whalsay.
Red-spotted Bluethroat male, Red-backed Shrike on Out Skerries.
Same cat, same place at 5.20am and the female Hawfinch again perched in the tree peering down at the cat! Why was I up at this time on a work day? Couldn't sleep because of back pain, more than probably due to the heavy gardening and lifting I've been doing. Tried to verbally shoo the cat away, when in reality I just wanted to stroke it and fuss it, it knew this and didn't budge an inch. It simply looked up and seemingly smiled at me. It knew I meant business when I returned dressed and it heard me unlocking the door and duly shot out of the garden, although, only a few yards out of my sight.... or so it thought. When I appeared round the corner of the house, it realised that a new birdwatching/snack diner needed to be found!
Busy day at work. Second day of fog here. Local people via Facebook are saying the same as me yesterday, but worse, not only are some people not putting their fog lights on, some are not even putting any lights on! If you have automatic lights, check they are actually on or better still, manually switch to lights on. There is a car on its roof (with police tape around it) at Loch of Tingwall, yards from the water, goodness knows what happened there! I had heard that everyone inside was ok, but I don't see how looking at the crushed state of the car – very, very lucky people indeed, to climb out of that unscathed and it could have been an entirely different outcome had the car landed a few yards further into the loch upside down! I was very close to witnessing this accident, which happened on Saturday. Myself and other drivers had to turn round at the Loch carpark, as the road was blocked with people assisting – as we all turned round to take a detour, the police were only just turning up to the scene.
Lots of Siskins in the garden again, around l5 this morning feeding on the niger seed and similar this evening. No Turtle Dove yet! Still foggy.
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