A good day out

I got up early and left the house at 7.00am to have a run about on the east side of Thurso for a change. This year all I seem to have gone out to search for is Geese so I fancied a change.


Castlehill

22 Wigeon
2 Great Northern Diver
Great Black Backed Gulls
Herring Gulls
Black Headed Gulls
Redshank
Oystercatcher
Starling
Wagtail
Jackdaw
Crow
Rook
Rock Pippit
6 Goldeneye
6 Curlew
4 Cormorant
Farm Piegeon
Sanderling
Purple Sandpiper
Turnstone

St Johns Pool

Chaffinch
Stonechat
Redwing
Great Tit
Whooper Swan (main Loch)
Black Headed Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Lapwing
Mute Swan
Little Grebe
Teal
Oystercatcher
Snipe - first this year
Mallard
Pippit
Blackbird

Brough Harbour

Seals
Fulmar
Redshank
Rock Pippit
Oystercatcher
Cormorant
Shag
Gulliemot

Harrow

Grey Heron
80+ Curlew (never seen so many at once)
Oystercatcher
40 Shags
50 Redshank
Mallard
Pochard
Teal
Wigeon
Rock Pippit
Cormorant
20 Eider

Ham

Goldeneye
Little Grebe
Tufted Duck
Mallard
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Teal
Wigeon

West Mey Farm

350 White Fronted Geese

Inkstack, Barrock

100 Lapwing on shores on Loch Heilan
2 buzzrds on dung heap

Reiss

22 Whooper Swans

Thanks, Catherine for the bird update.
A very interesting mix of birds.

May one offer a list of winter birds at the sunflower feeders in the front yard. (surrounded on 3 sides by forest) in the Boreal Forest of Canada.

Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, Evening Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak, Nuthatch, Red-headed Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, and Raven.

Not sure I could beat your list for a garden feeder, nowt more exotic than a house sparrow and blackbird here most mornings.

Thanks for sharing though.