Spring is now just about over.....we think (but there is time for that July Mega to arrive), and autumn is just around the corner (well if you count post breeding dispersal of Stalings and returning  waders, autumn has begun!)


Here are just a few highlights in pictures of what turned out to be a fairly good list of species for Spring. Though numbers of birds were never massive, we have had a good run of stuff.


Red Sword Grass

Lapland Bunting

 

This shot of the Lap Bunt was chosen as a 'notable photo' in the birdguides weekly round up.

Shag

Black Redstart

Yellowhammer

Glaucous Gull

Lapland Bunting

Treecreeper

Ring Ouzel

Tufted Duck - 25th Island Record!

Mealy Redpolls

Wooodlark

Glaucous Gull

Cuckoo

Whimbrel

Pied Flycatcher

Snow Bunting

Redstart

Short-eared Owl

Blackcap - record numbers were seen and ringed

Pied Flycatcher

North-western type Redpoll

Yellow Wagtail

Red-rumped Swallow - 3rd for the island and the start of our run of good birds

Whinchat

Grasshopper Warbler

Lesser Whitethroat

Common Redpoll - we think

Whinchat -  a stunner!

Snow Bunting - Ditto!

Greenland Wheatear - normal and leucistic

Whitethroat - after a late and slow start numbers were good.
Pied Flycatcher - another belter

Yellow Wag - Ditto

Crossbill

Turtle Dove

Subalpine Warbler - a very skuly bird indeed

Phyllosc sp - Chiff, willow, hybrid or Iberian!

RED Knots

Black Kite

Firecrest

Common Rosefinch - three were seen

Bar-tailed Godwit

Little Owl

Another Rosefinch

Red Kite

European Bee-Eater

Melodious Warbler

Woodchat Shrike

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Greenish Warbler

'Dombrowskii's' type Wagtail

Pomarine Skua (Rich B)

Green(ish) Warbler - second of the year! (Rich B)

So, that was spring in a nutshell, a fantastic array of birds not to be sniffed at. RBA said in their review of the week that Bardsey must be site of the spring!