Finally got in on the ‘White-front’ action at Aith today. The long staying Grey Plover continues to move around the Funzie area with the Goldie flock.
11.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not a lot to get excited about locally but this Grey Plover has been hanging around the Funzie area, since October.
27.12.2025 15:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Carse needed it because his first 4 overs were abysmal
17.12.2025 00:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It was barely light, hence the terrible pic, but a Water Rail in the garden was a nice start to the day.
22.11.2025 09:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Long-eared Owl left the area some time ago. Here's a shot of it perched.
21.11.2025 19:36 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two Tree Sparrows at Tresta were a surprise find today. Patch gold!
20.11.2025 15:16 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Yellow-browed Warbler was looking somewhat better today and 'that' Redpoll appeared again.
11.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A late (and very wet) Yellow-browed Warbler in challenging conditions this afternoon.
10.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An "interesting" Redpoll from yesterday
06.11.2025 22:16 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ridiculous views of a Long-eared Owl, this afternoon, at an undisclosed location.
04.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great find!
02.11.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks. I'm not 100% certain but I don't recall seeing any reported.
01.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No sign of it yesterday but the AGP was back at Aithbank again, this afternoon.
01.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Found an American Golden Plover at Aithbank this morning.
30.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Northerlies aren't producing migrants here but there's always something to brighten up the day. Merlin at Dullens.
27.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crazy how scarce these thing are on Fetlar. Part of a 'flock' of 15
23.10.2025 22:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
😍
23.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fabulous mate! Great pics in poor light too.
22.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Completely wind free and uninterrupted sunshine. Perfect, apart from no birds.
17.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sibe Chiffchaff at Tresta this afternoon.
17.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
After being disturbed from its perch by a Hoodie this Merlin took repeated retaliatory action.
16.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Redwing numbers are increasing slowly but nowhere near their peak yet.
16.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Willow Warbler
15.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Merlin (at the same site as the Sparrowhawk) flushed everything out of the garden I was just about to check 😁
14.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sparrowhawks are not particularly common here, so I was pleased to get good views of one, this afternoon at Tresta.
14.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The long staying Whinchat remaining faithful to the Aith Burn area.
13.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great Northern Diver at Brough, seems to have a deformed or broken lower mandible
12.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Glaucous Gull - Loch of Funzie
12.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Stonechat and Whinchat were still hanging around Aith Burn
07.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Niche drivel: https://mulberryhall.medium.com
(Profile pic of Bob Holness with a pillar box growing out of his head by @jimmer.art)
The BOU AviList January 2026:
Species - 636
Subspecies - 115
Most recent additions:
Species: BOOTED EAGLE - August 2025
Subspecies: East Siberian White Wagtail - June 2022
Author, artist, lecturer, obsessed with birds and all of nature
Shetland born & bred, birder, naturalist, ZRSG Chair, C-Ringer, native tree and woodland enthusiast, moth-er, Northwoods Rewilding Network member
Birding Cape Cornwall, Cot Valley and Boscregan, West Penwith, Cornwall.
Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
My name is Alan Dalton. I am a Sound Recorder, Artist, Podcaster and generally avid Irish birder, now living in Sweden. All about sharing wild bird songs and calls, along with images and videos from the field, here in Scandinavia and beyond…
Shetlander I Naturalist I Photographer I Birder.
Director/guide @ Shetland Nature.
Like Otters a bit too much…
Author of ‘Wild Shetland- through the seasons’ (2013) and ‘Otters in Shetland’ (2016).
@SwarovskiOptik ambassador.
Working with @BenroUK
Local patch Long Nab, North Yorkshire. Chair of Scarborough Birders. Kittiwake studies. Bird guide. Vismigger/seawatcher. Generally grumpy.
Sheffield United⚔️
She/her, zero carbon birder, BOURC member, County Recorder for Cheshire, S-ringer. Green Party Activist. Love taxonomically confusing birds, esp Dunlin, Redpoll and Chiffchaffs. Obsession with live music. Three fabulously unique daughters.
Liverpool FC Main Stand ST
Britain's Top Vicarious Birder.
Aberdeen Wildife DNA lab. Aniridia research.
Likes birds, stamps, ghosts, art, and wasps.
Leeds United #lufc because I was bad in a previous life.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberdeendnalab
Ex-Chef, ex-French resident, ex-wastrel
Haunted meatsack and Elon unenjoyer.
Manager of Isle of May National Nature Reserve since 2015 having been on Farne Island 2001-2014. Also Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) Chair
Likes: wildlife, birds, moths etc; music; travel: Liverpool FC; cricket; being a Grandad.
Hobby ornithologist. Monitoring breeding birds, bird sounds, migration, #nocmig, ringer. PhD in Mol Microbiol @ Uni of Oxford. #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2023
