Sunday 5 October 2014

Shetlands May/June & September, 2009

Doreen and myself spent 2 months on the Shetlands, a month from mid-May to mid-June,2009 where we spent 3 weeks in a croft at Virkie and 1 week staying with our good friends Edwin & Marina on Out Skerries and a month in September, 2009 again spending 3 weeks at Virkie and 1 week at Norwick on Unst. I also twitched the Sandhill Crane on South Orkney in September, going over on the evening ferry and returning the following evening on the ferry.



Shetland Wren on Sumburgh Head


Woodchat at Skaw,Unst


Wood Warbler at Geosetter


Wigeon at Virkie





Whoopers at Toab


Wheatear at Scatness




Twite at Sumburgh


Swallow at Virkie

Subalpine Warbler (montolii race with its wren like call) at Scatness




Spotted Flycatcher at Swinings



Common Snipe

Skylark on Unst


Siskin at Toab



Shags at Gletness







Sandhill Crane on Southern Mainland, Orkney




Sanderling at Virkie





Rock Doves on Out Skerries



Redshank on Virkie


Ringed Plover on Out Skerries



Red Throated Diver at Northdale Bay,Unst



Ravens


Red Breasted Mergansers








Puffins on Sumburgh Head




Pied Flycatchers at Gletness



Oystercatchers on Out Skerries






Merlin on Sumburgh Head




Mealy Redpolls at Virkie


Redpoll sp. (probably NW race) at Swinings


Meadow Pipit at Virkie



Lesser Scaup on Loch Benson








Adult Laughing Gull in the Toab area


Lapwing at Sumburgh


Kittiwake at Scatness




Icterine Warbler at Scatness

Grey Heron at Swinings


Iceland Gull near Toab


House Martin at Virkie


Hooded Crow at Baltasound, Unst.

Guillemots at Sumburgh Head



Great Reed Warbler on Out Skerries


Greenshank on Unst


Golden Plover at Swinings


Great Northern Diver near Virkie



Garden Warbler on Unst


Gannet at Virkie

Fulmars on Out Skerries




Eiders on Virkie



Dunlin at Virkie





Curlews at Sumburgh







Crossbill at Hoswick



Common Gulls at Virkie

Bonxie on Out Skerries


Bluethroat at Toab





Black Guillemot on Out Skerries




Barred Warbler at Northdale, Unst


Bar Tailed Godwit at Virkie





Arctic Skuas near Virkie





Arctic Warbler at Scalloway




Arctic Terns


Adult Lesser Golden Plover on Orkney

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