Our final day on Unst and we made the most of it by getting up early again and working nearby gardens to try and find any skulking migrants. Unfortunately, the only things we could find were commoner birds such as Blackcaps and Chiff Chaff. We also paid a visit to Clingera, Baltasound to try and find a Red-backed Shrike that had been reported but unfortunately could not locate it.
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| Twite on a wire |
Mid morning we decided to go back to the areas we had covered the previous day including a garden at Valyie where Blyth's Reed Warbler and Long Eared Owl had been reported for the past few days. One of our group managed to find the Long Eared Owl in the top branches of a Pine and I spotted a pale grey bird as it flew from almost under my feet. After spending some time, we eventually obtained decent if not brief views of the bird to identify it as a Blyth's Reed Warbler.
We eat our lunch back at Skaw in the hope that the Little Bunting had not moved on (but it obviously had) and then spent the afternoon in Uyeasound looking for (but not finding) Mealy Redpolls. However, we did obtain great views of the resident Twite and a handsome Whooper Swan.
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| Mr Whooper |
We finished the day off back at Clingera, Baltasound and managed to find the Red Backed Shrike and splendid little Goldcrest.
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