Good few days

 The weather has been bright but windy so, difficult to find migrant passerines but we have been out and about.

We took one of our guests, Mark, over to Unst for the day. He hadn't been before, so we walked up to Hermaness. There were plenty of Bonxies, Gannets and a rough sea.

We also refound the Barred warbler at Valyie.

Nice to see some fresh plumaged Wheatears around.

We also found a few bits locally. A nice pair of stonechat s.

Lots of wagtails around.

And plenty of gannets at Melby and the first purple sandpipers are back.

Plenty of winter plumage tysties in town.

Looking forward to the next week as Sam is up to stay and do a bit of wool week.

Finally got our fancy coffee machine installed. Yum.

Eshaness

 It's been good at Eshaness the last two days with a Buff breasted Sandpiper showing ridiculously well. It walked straight towards Jill until a dog off the lead, flushed it.

It was hard holding the camera as it was very windy .

Beautiful sunrise today.

Today we went back, it was still windy!

We didn't refund the sandpiper but caught up with a showy glossy ibis.

Nice couple of birds.