Another influx of Goldcrests, a number of them were obviously recovering from the journey and were uninterested in my presence. I could have easily picked some of them up.
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Great shots Paul they are like lightning
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The westerlies have put paid to eastern arrivals but that doesn’t mean there won’t be, this is Shetland after all, and stranger things have happened.
I did see the Funzie SEOwl again, even though it was >150m away
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Even when there are few migrants to find, there’s always something to whet the appetite.
This absolute brute of a Glaucous Gull spent all of 5 minutes on Loch of Funzie before flying off. I expect it will return in the coming days.
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Unit!
A couple more from yesterday
Great Northern Diver, with a damaged/deformed lower mandible
Siberian (tristis race) Chiffchaff
From today, the long staying Winchat
and a female Blackcap
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Sparrowhawks are not common here, so I was pleased to get such good views of this one, this afternoon at Tresta.
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A Merlin (at the same site as the Sparrowhawk) flushed everything out of the garden I was just about to check 
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Looks wired
You don’t think any of these birds are actually wild, do you?
They’re all on wires, I just forgot to photoshop that one out 
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Just being flippant, but also how hunger can drive you
Your photos and how you get them are always a sense of devotion and skill, and appreciated
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So was I 
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A Merlin perched on a wire at Baelens surveying its territory was unexpectedly attacked by a Hooded Crow.
It was obviously well pissed off with the Hoodie so proceeded to extract its revenge.
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A decent influx of Redwing overnight with numbers in the low hundreds. I expect there will be many more before long.
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To my surprise, I’ve seen a couple down here already doing some berry stripping - harbingers of a bitter winter perhaps?
Possibly 
Likely to be a better indicator than the Met Office can manage.
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At last, an informed article relating to bird migration in a national newspaper. Who’d a thunk it?
The video of the Desertas Petrel chasing a hurricane is amazing.
Oh, and I love Tina Zellmer’s illustrations! 
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Quiet today, overnight Northerlies and a clear sky seems to have cleared everything out.
A couple of migrants
Siberian race (tristis) Chiffchaff
and a juvenile Ringed Plover
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The Chiffchaff picture is dreamy!
