Waking up this morning a pale-morph juvenile Booted Eagle over Nanquidno in Cornwall had been seen yesterday.
Botted Eagle (Jim Waterman)
After dark morphs over Cape Cornwall on 20th May and Nanquidno on 2nd September both would fail to be seen again. Myself and Dan Pointon were up for the leaving Shetland today if the bird was seen again so we carried on with our day.
A Cattle Egret was seen during the morning with two Purple sandpipers which all showed well.
News then broke late morning that the Botted Eagle had been relocated by some local birders showing on-and-off in the vicinity of Land's End until a final sighting at 1.45 pm.We booked our flights for a late afternoon departure back onto the mainland,we had to give it a go even though there was no sighting after 1.45pm.We headed back to are accommodation to pack and then just as we were leaving news broke that a White Winged Scoter had been found north of Lerwick.A quick drive north and we soon on the bird that was showing with a group of Eider.
After good views of the bird we headed for the airport and we off after another great weeks birding on Shetland!
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