We started this morning at Skat Ness where we split up, Keith heard a Lapland Bunting, fly over but the best bird we could all manage was a Jack Snipe. Then Bob who had wandered off phoned to say he had an unusual warbler, we eventually tied it down and it proved to be our only Garden Warbler of the week, the only other bird of note was a Whinchat.
We then had a trawl around the Sumburgh Head area with the Semipalmated still present on the beach at Grutness. We birded from the Hotel and scanned the bay north picking up a Long-tailed Duck. After a coffee we headed north, with nothing much to go for we though we would have another look at yesterdays Greenish Warbler which showed really well now the wind had dropped.
Also the Shrike decided to play ball and we all had good views of that as well.
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| Greenish Warbler, Cunningsburgh |
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| Red-backed Shrike, Cunningsburgh |
We then drove to Hoswick and the Swinister Burn were we eventually got good views of the Olive-backed Pipit. On the way back we dropped into Levenwick where we connected with a couple of Yellow-browed Warblers and a Lesser Whitethroat.
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