wserene 4/07/2013 13:20
Bird trip in Scotland, Jun 2013
My friends and I visited Scotland on 16/6-28/6 for bird watching. We spent the first week in Shetland and visited Hermaness, Fetlar, Mousa, Sumburgh Head and Noss. The remaining days I went to my dream place, Isle of May to watch the Puffins. The weather on June was not stable in Shetland but we still got good bird record on the island. The trip to Isle of May was amazing, and birds were easy seen before you, over you and around you. Total 77 species were seen. Deeply thanks for my friends to let my dream come true.
Bird record (16/6-28/6)
1 Mute Swan
2 Wooper Swan
3 Greylag Goose
4 Shelduck
5 Mallard
6 Tufted Duck
7 Eider
8 Red-throated Diver
9 Great Northern Diver
10 Fulmar
11 Manx Shearwater
12 Storm Petrel
13 Gannet
14 Cormorant
15 Shag
16 Grey Heron
17 Common Buzzard
18 Oystercatcher
19 Ringed Plover
20 Golden Plover
21 Lapwing
22 Sanderling
23 Dunlin
24 Common Snipe
25 Whimbrel
26 Curlew
27 Common Redshank
28 Turnstone
29 Arctic Skua
30 Great Skua
31 Black-headed Gull
32 Common Gull
33 Lesser Black-backed Gull
34 Herring Gull
35 Great Black-backed Gull
36 Kittiwake
37 Common Tern
38 Arctic Tern
39 Guillemot
40 Razorbill
41 Black Guillemot
42 Puffin
43 Rock Dove
44 Wood Pigeon
45 Collared Dove
46 Common Swift
47 Sky Lark
48 Swallow
49 House Martin
50 Tree Pipit
51 Meadow Pipit
52 Rock Pipit
53 Grey Wagtail
54 Pied Wagtail
55 Wren
56 Dunnock
57 Robin
58 Northern Wheatear
59 Blackbird
60 Song Thrush
61 Common Whitethroat
62 Blue Tit
63 Great Tit
64 Coal Tit
65 Magpie
66 Jackdaw
67 Carrion row
68 Hooded Crow
69 Raven
70 Starling
71 House Sparrow
72 Chaffinch
73 Greenfinch
74 Goldfinch
75 Linnet
76 Twite
77 Yellowhammer
That’s a pity on the journey that we didn’t see the Red-necked Phalarope on Fetlar where famous to watch this kind of bird. A RSPB staff told us that the phalarope was not easy to find although they nested on Fetlar.