More curlew than you can shake a stick at

 It seemed today was the day for Curlew to be on the move with their newly hatched chicks. After dropping off at the post office and buying biscuits, Jill did a few diversions on the way home, starting at Whitesness.

It's a very quiet road . On Gruting Voe, there was a large group of male eider around the mussel beds.

On the way back Jill spotted an adult Curlew on a wall. Then 4 chicks came out of the grass and came right up to the fence by the car. So sweet.

The adults were quite happy watching.

Until another Curlew came calling. It got pretty violent.

On the way home, Jill spotted a further 11 youngsters.

It's amazing what you see going to the pharmacy

 Early hospital appointment for Rob, quick shop and home all by 12.15am. Not bad . Then all three rooms needed changing. One of the carpets had acquired a big stain so we spent a couple of hours trying to get it out. Sigh

Jill picked up Robs prescriptions this afternoon and it took a bit longer than usual to get back. Got distracted by some birds.

Nice little interlude.

Then it was back to the ironing

The best Red necks yet

 We went to Fetlar today. The weather was dull and often drizzly but the birds didn't care!

The inter island ferries are all over the place. Luckily we got out early ( after sorting our lovely guests their breakfast) otherwise the 11 o'clock ferry we booked wouldn't have got us there. We were on the 10.10.

We got to Funzie loch, and straight away picked up red necked phalaropes.

They were mating and chasing each other around. We had 4 to start.

In the hopes the light would improve we checked out the other spots and also found at least 4 at Houbie along with snipe.

We went back to Funzie and had our best showing ever with at least 7 birds chasing each other around. Lots of photos, sorry it's hard to choose,!

While Jill was hidden behind a grassed over wall. A dunlin walked right up.