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.
ShagBlack 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!
Melodious Warbler or Bee-eater?
ReplyDeleteA Fabulous collection of images - thanks for posting. Vicarious birding is still birding!
Superb island, superb spring, superb images!
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