Rare Bird Alert News
MAINLAND
TENGMALM'S OWL
in undisclosed location on the west side of mainland.
in undisclosed location on the west side of mainland.
Waxwing in garden at Voe.
Taiga Bean Geese x 3 still at Virkie.
ISLANDS
Kumlien's Gull or Thayer's Gull 3w still at Easter Loch, Uyeasound, Unst.
White-billed Diver, Iceland Gull at south end of Hascosay Sound.
TENGMALM'S OWL
in undisclosed location on the west side of mainland.
This is a screenshot from a post earlier today on Facebook
What I would give to see this, just WOW! I remember all the excitement about the one at Lea Gardens at Tresta in 2019 when I was living in Norfolk and here I am living in Shetland, another turns up and nobody can go and see it, utterly heartbreaking. Hopefully the owner will change their minds about birders coming to see it. Its not as if the place will be flooded with twitchers from 'south' with the current weather conditions, more ferries and flights being cancelled over the next few days, plus any cheque book twitchers (as I call them 😉) would have nipped over in 2019 so won't need to come here again.
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I’m sure all the local toggers are already out hunting it down, so why would the finder even post it? ID’s easy enough online even for a complete novice.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous, there are no 'Toggers' in Shetland, one of the many reasons I moved here. Plus its Up Helly Aa and the weather is atrocious here! Sometimes people like to share information to show off (the same happens in England), sometimes its to let the birding community know they have a very rare bird for the record reasons, but don't want to share the bird, which is totally up to them. An average or novice birder would have known it could have only been a possibility of a handful of owls, whilst someone who has no knowledge of birds, wouldn't have even known that, so understand why they posted it to get ID, knowing full well it would be ID'd correctly.
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DeleteNot a very intelligent reply Anonymous!
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