The best I came up with was a Barred Warbler in the Grutness crop, but apart from a Pied Flycatcher at Exnaboe and a Fieldfare in the quarry at Sumburgh all I saw was a few Willow Warblers. The most unexpected event of the day was ...
This seemed like a good time to have a bit of a thrash round, with the thrilling result of a Whinchat behind the house, a Willow Warbler and a Chiffchaff at Exnaboe and 4 Chaffinches and a Wood Pigeon at Toab. ... Very impressed with the lengths you had to go to ?twitching on Fetlar? ? think I will concentrate on birding the local area near the Sumburgh Hotel(or the nearest birding area) when I get there on Saturday ? looks rather more complicated to get to Fetlar than I ...
Why was I at the utterly delightful sink estate that is Firth one may ask? So that I could see a Med Gull, that's why ? a Shetland tick. As was the Black-bellied Dipper near Scalloway in late January. So that was all very nice. ...
