Unfortunately there has been little in the way of southerly or easterly winds and no rain either so there were, possibly for the first time ever, no migrants other than many of the birds that have arrived since my last visit.
Chiff-chaff gransanger and Swallow låvesvale
Arctic Terns rødnebbterne. Male on the right - based on the fact he has a fish for the woman of his dreams
Purple Sandpipers fjæreplytt - still hanging around but at least they have moulted
Technically speaking the best bird of the day - a Carrion Crow svartkråke
Linnets tornirisk are almost as numerous at Twite bergirisk on the island this year
Just one of many White-tailed Eagles havørn seen today.
So just the usual Twite bergirisk, a singing Sedge Warbler sivsanger, Whitethroats tornsanger and so on.
Plenty of White-tailed Eagles havørn about with around 10 different birds seen.
The boat trip there and back was very nice producing 20 Arctic Terns rødnebbterne on one island and at least 30 on another. They were courting and obviously thinking about staying. Let's hope this year goes well of them. These attracted the attention of an Arctic Skua tyvjo.
A flock of 12 Purple Sandpipers fjærelplytt were well on their way into summer plumage. They should get going soon.....
Plenty of gulls settled in nicely on their breeding colonies along with Oystercatchers tjeld etc. A few adult Black Guillemots teist were on the sea near one of their usual breeding haunts.
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