Goldfinch101
New member
Hello, my first post here. I have recently returned from a holiday on Orkney staying with a friend there. (6th to 14th february) We visited all the rspb reserves on the Orkney Mainland as well as Rousay and Egilsay. This is a list of species seen in roughly the order spotted.
Collard Dove, Starling, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, Redshank, Oystercatcher, Red Breasted merganser, Great Northern Diver, Black Guillemot, Black Headed Gull, Fulmar, Shag, Pied Wagtail, Rock Pipit, Eider, Mute swan, Greylag Goose, Hooded Crow, Turnstone, Goldeneye, Curlew, Raven, Whooper Swan, Wigeon, Sanderling, Ringed Plover, Tufted Duck, Purple Sandpiper, Grey Heron, Golden Plover, Snipe, GBB Gull, Shoveler, Rook, Long Tailed Duck, Mallard, Hen Harrier, Merlin, Stonechat, Blackbird, House Sparrow, Lapwing, Common Gull, Pochard, Little Grebe, Coot, Glaucous Gull, Pheasant, Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Twite, Linnet, Brambling, Pink Footed Goose, Dunlin, wren, Skylark, Iceland Gull, Teal, Robin, Buzzard, Woodcock, Scaup, Shellduck, Pintail, Gadwall, Barnacle Goose, Slavonian Grebe, Snow Bunting, Jackdaw, Meadow Pipit and White Fronted Goose.
Highlights were getting my best ever views of Merlin and GN Diver and also watching 13 Hen Harriers coming in to roost in the space of under an hour one evening. Slav grebe, Glaucous and Iceland gulls were lifers too.
Collard Dove, Starling, Herring Gull, LBB Gull, Redshank, Oystercatcher, Red Breasted merganser, Great Northern Diver, Black Guillemot, Black Headed Gull, Fulmar, Shag, Pied Wagtail, Rock Pipit, Eider, Mute swan, Greylag Goose, Hooded Crow, Turnstone, Goldeneye, Curlew, Raven, Whooper Swan, Wigeon, Sanderling, Ringed Plover, Tufted Duck, Purple Sandpiper, Grey Heron, Golden Plover, Snipe, GBB Gull, Shoveler, Rook, Long Tailed Duck, Mallard, Hen Harrier, Merlin, Stonechat, Blackbird, House Sparrow, Lapwing, Common Gull, Pochard, Little Grebe, Coot, Glaucous Gull, Pheasant, Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Twite, Linnet, Brambling, Pink Footed Goose, Dunlin, wren, Skylark, Iceland Gull, Teal, Robin, Buzzard, Woodcock, Scaup, Shellduck, Pintail, Gadwall, Barnacle Goose, Slavonian Grebe, Snow Bunting, Jackdaw, Meadow Pipit and White Fronted Goose.
Highlights were getting my best ever views of Merlin and GN Diver and also watching 13 Hen Harriers coming in to roost in the space of under an hour one evening. Slav grebe, Glaucous and Iceland gulls were lifers too.