Shetland - Day 2

So it begins and a reasonable start checking out a local woodland on the outskirts of Lerwick showing some promise for the coming days.  The plan was to connect with some of the species that have been hanging around in the hope that something else might turn up en route.  The sun was shining and the winds were light suggesting that conditions were not conducive for a fall of migrants.  

Wadbister - a lovely place looking over the Voe.  The king eider, a 2nd year, was eventually picked up distantly amongst a raft of around hundred common eider preening on a small platform.  There were three black guillemot there, a red-breasted merganser, and four wigeon.

Aith - hoping for the rosy starling which drew a blank.  Three smart wheatear were present next to the bay and two chaffinch flew over.  Four arctic tern were feeding offshore.

Quendale - an hour's drive south to this popular site. Two very brief views of red-breasted flycatcher in sycamores next to the mill.  The micro-woodland also held a willow warbler and a common whitethroat.  A second visit heading back from Sumburgh produced a flyover great skua, common snipe, three siskin, and a twite along the fenceline.  A blackcap appeared within vegetation close to the mill. 

Sumburgh - a brilliant greenish warbler flitting around some sparse vegetation in the hotel grounds. A lovely bird.  A few gannet, a group of common scoter and a fulmar flew past on the sea

Grutness - A nice selection of waders with a juvenile little stint, sanderling, dunlin, and ringed plover.