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Saturday, September 23, 2017

SHETLAND DAY 3

I met up with Dan this morning after breakfast, and we did some birding around the south of the mainland as we had to drop two lads off at the airport.
List of birds seen:
 3 Whooper Swan

 1 Common Crane
3 Dunlin
4 Redstart
17 Yellow Browed Warbler
6 Redstart
4 Spotted Flycatcher
9 Garden warbler
1 Grasshopper Warbler
1 Merlin
1 Kestrel
9 Chiffchaff
2 Willow warbler
9 Redshank
2 Red-breasted Merganser
6 Turnstone
7 Linnet
70+ Meadow Pipit
40+Skylark
2 Reed Bunting
23 Brambling
7 Wheatear
9 Song Thrush