Rare vagrant appears
SEPTEMBER ended with more warbler rarities. A Syke’s warbler was identified at Sumburgh on the 25th by Roger Riddington and Paul Harvey. A very rare…
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Visiting migrants keen to stick around
MANY of last week’s migrants are still present and there have been new visitors around this week. The juvenile rose-coloured starling (sometimes referred to as…
READ FULL STORYRare thrush nightingale in Fetlar
ANOTHER busy week for North Isles wildlife as migrant birds continued to move through, with a few standing out from the crowd. A thrush nightingale…
READ FULL STORYExcitement as rare warbler joins autumn migration
THIS week brought the biggest “fall” of autumn migrants to Shetland for over 10 years. National rarities included an Arctic warbler at Exnaboe, a citrine…
READ FULL STORYChanging season draws in birds of all shapes and sizes
BARELY was the ink dry on last week’s North Isles Wildernews when the wind went due east and brought with it Unst’s third paddyfield warbler,…
READ FULL STORYSoapy water may kill off our unwanted wasps, but I actually feel sorry for them
A LITTLE interest is a dangerous thing. It can lead to complicated relationships with creatures which are completely oblivious of your attention and benign focus….
READ FULL STORYAn amazing perambulation round Strom
AT THIS time of year, despite the darkening onrush of autumn, the chill of early mornings and increasingly frequent showers, a final colour burst hits…
READ FULL STORYTime to be spotted if you are a flycatcher
SPOTTED flycatchers are fairly common passage migrants, with most of the autumn records in September. The adults are not spotted but juveniles are heavily marked…
READ FULL STORYMigrants moving out
WITH a whiff of wind from the east, the pace of bird migration moved up a gear last week. An ortolan bunting found at Norwick…
READ FULL STORYRare cuckoo joins the willow warblers
THE BEGINNING of the month brought a fall of migrants with widespread records of willow warblers – up to 25 being recorded at Sumburgh Farm….
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GRASS of Parnassus! I can’t believe it. What on earth is it doing here, on a 45 degree north facing slope in thin, dry, soil,…
READ FULL STORYWeek for vagrant warblers
VARIOUS species of warblers have been recorded this week including reed, wood, willow, garden and booted. The booted warbler, a rare vagrant from eastern Europe,…
READ FULL STORYLooking for chitons, cousin to the limpet
A STEADY trickle of migrants continued to pass through the North Isles last week. Mostly they were the usual suspects but a barred warbler was…
READ FULL STORYYou too can enjoy the geologist’s palette
WEST Sandwick beach in Yell used to run pink in waves and bands, spreading like blush trails out from the burn at the north end…
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