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Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Yell: Short-eared
Owl near Mid Yell.
Cetaceans: Minke Whale off the Hopp, Eshaness.
Insects:
Bordered Sallow at Scatness (2nd for Shetland).
Bordered Sallow at Scatness -
Steve Minton
Monday 2nd July 2012
Unst: Common
Redpoll at Skaw.
Fetlar: Chiffchaff
at Tresta.
Central Mainland:
about 6 Common Crossbills at Brae.
Burra: 4 Common
Crossbills on Trondra.
Golden Plover and Dunlin on Yell
- George Petrie
Sunday 1st July 2012
Central Mainland:
Slavonian Grebe in Weisdale Voe.
Cetaceans: Common Dolphin at Skeld Voe.
Common Dolphin at Skeld -
Julie Redpath
Shetland Bumblebees and
White-tailed Bumblee at Voe - Brian Gray
Saturday 30th June 2012
North Mainland:
White-tailed Eagle over Roer Water, north of Ronas Hill.
South Mainland: Icterine
Warbler and Common Whitethroat at Sumburgh Hotel.
Central Mainland:
Siskin and Common Redpoll at Voe. 3 Siskins at Kergord.
West Mainland: Wood
Pigeon at Gairdens o' Sand. 4 Sanderlings at Melby.
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Guillemot in Lerwick - Mike
Pennington; Arctic Skua and Great Northern Diver at Sand, west Mainland - Gordon
Carle; Herring Gull and Curlew chick at Cunningsburgh - Robin & Charyl Gosden;
Otter in South Mainland - John Moncrieff
Insects:
Red Admirals widespread.
Friday 29th June 2012
Fetlar:
Pectoral Sandpiper still at Funzie.
Glaucous Gull at Houbie.
Glaucous Gull on Fetlar - Andy
Cook
South Mainland:
Hobby over Sumburgh Airport. Icterine
Warbler still at Sumburgh Hotel.
Icterine Warbler at Sumburgh and
Wheatears and Snipe at Clumlie - George Petrie; Meadow Pipit and Wheatear at
Spiggie and Gannet at Boddam - John Moncrieff
Insects:
Red Admiral at Baltasound.
Thursday 28th June 2012
South Mainland:
Great Reed Warbler between
Dalsetter and Boddam.
North Mainland: wing
of dead immature Night Heron found on Sand
Voe beach.
Unst: Carrion Crow
and Marsh Warbler
at Baltasound.
Central Mainland: 2
Swifts at Lunna.
Wednesday 27th June 2012
Whalsay:
Arctic Warbler trapped at Skaw.
Arctic Warbler on Whalsay - John
Lowrie Irvine
North Mainland:
Black Kite at North Roe.
South Mainland:
Icterine Warbler at Sumburgh Hotel.
Central Mainland:
Glaucous Gull in Lerwick.
Black Guillemot on Papa Stour -
Naomi Scott
Cetaceans:
Pod of Killer Whales off North Roe.
Tuesday 26th June 2012
Fetlar:
Black Kite at Funzie.
Whalsay: Hawfinch
and Red-backed Shrike at Skaw.
Yell: 16
Sanderlings at Cullivoe.
Sanderlings at Cullivoe - Jim
Nangle
Cetaceans:
2 Minke Whales south of Sumburgh Head. Pod of Killer Whales
off North Roe.
Monday 25th June 2012
Whalsay: New Black
Redstart at Hamister. Red-backed Shrike at Skaw.
South Mainland:
Redwing and Common Swift at Sumburgh Hotel. Green Sandpiper at
Hillwell.
Arctic Terns at Grutness -
Charles Gifford
Insect sightings:
several Red Admirals at Scatness.
Cetaceans:
About 8 White-sided Dolphines at Skeld.
Sunday 24th June 2012
Whalsay: Red-backed
Shrike still at Skaw.
South Mainland:
Icterine Warbler at Sumburgh Hotel. Pale-bellied Brent Goose at
Sumburgh Farm.
West Mainland: 4
Sanderlings at Melby.
Unst: Willow
Warbler at Haroldswick.
Arctic Skua, Dunlin and Great
Skua at Hermaness - Mike Pennington
Otter in South Mainland - John
Moncrieff
Insect sightings:
Red Admirals at Toab and Sumburgh.
Cetaceans:
About 5 Killer Whales off Fethaland.
Saturday 23rd June 2012
Unst:
Black Kite around Watlee.
Black Kite at Watlee - Rob
Brookes
Whalsay: Red-backed
Shrike and Wood Pigeon at Skaw. Lesser Whitethroat at
Marrister.
Central Mainland:
Cuckoo at Trondavoe. 2 Common Swifts at Loch of Clickimin.
South Mainland:
Black-throated Diver in Clift Sound south of
Uradale. Icterine Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher at Sumburgh
Hotel.
Black-throated Diver in Clift
Sound - Pete Ellis
West Mainland:
Spotted Flycatcher at Unifirth, West Burrafirth.
Spotted Flycatcher at West
Burrafirth - Julie Redpath
Eiders at Boddam and Otters in
south Mainland - John Moncrieff
Oystercatchers at Sandness -
Charles Gifford
Friday 22nd June 2012
Unst:
Black Kite around Watlee.
Whalsay: Stonechat
and Wood Pigeon at Skaw. Black Redstart still at Hamister.
Siskin at Symbister.
Stonechat on Whalsay - John
Laurie Irvine
South Mainland:
Chiffchaff, Robin, Reed Warbler and Swallow at Sumburgh
Hotel.
Chiffchaff and Robin at Sumburgh;
Redshank at East Burra - Jim Wood
Yell; House Martin
at Kirk Loch, Cullivoe.
Marine sighting:
Basking Shark in Firths Voe.
Thursday 21st June 2012
Unst:
Black Kite on Hermaness. Chiffchaff
at Norwick.
Fetlar: Glaucous
Gull at Houbie.
Central Mainland: 4
Common Crossbills at Voe.
Common Crossbill at Voe - Brian
Gray
Common Snipe and Wren at Cullive
- Jim Nangle
Arctic Skua at Clumlie - Jim
Wood
Wednesday 20th June 2012
Unst:
Hobby on Saxa Vord. Sparrowhawk at
Baltasound.
Fetlar: Snow
Bunting and Wood Sandpiper.
South Mainland:
Wood Sandpiper at Virkie. Kestrel at Scatness. 2
Siskins at Ocraquoy.
Arctic Tern at St
Ninian's Isle - Gordon Carle; Hooded Crow at Hillwell and Rock Pipit and
Oystercatcher at Grutness - Jim Wood
Central Mainland:
Shelduck at Ness of Sound.
Shelduck at Ness of
Sound - Gordon Carle
Cetaceans:
4-5 Killer Whales off Hermaness, Unst at least twice during the
day.
Tuesday 19th June 2012
Central Mainland:
Black Kite at Gremista, Lerwick.
Black Kite at Gremista - Jim
Nicolson (one photo); Rob Fray (one photo); Wood Pigeon at Upper Sound - Gordon
Carle
Unst: Sparrowhawk,
Wood Sandpiper, Marsh Warbler
and 3 Siskins at Baltasound.
Great Skua and Dunlin on
Hermaness - Rob Brookes
South Mainland:
Black Kite reported at Wester Quarff and
elsewhere in early evening. Common Crossbill at Swinister.
Reed Warbler and Chiffchaff at
Sumburgh Hotel. Common Whitethroat at Virkie.
Wheatears and Puffins at
Sumburgh - John Moncrieff; Great Northern Diver at Grutness, Skylark at Clumlie
and Whooper Swans - Jim Wood
Great Northern Diver at Voe of
Garderhouse - Julie Redpath
Cetaceans:
5 Killer Whales off Hill of Clibberswick, Unst..
Killer Whales off
Clibberswick - Ken MacLeod
Monday 18th June 2012
South Mainland:
Black Kite reported over Sumburgh Head.
Long-eared Owl and Willow Warbler at Geosetter. Reed Warbler at
Sumburgh Hotel. Blackcap at Quendale. Hawfinch at Ocraquoy.
Hawfinch at Ocraquoy -
George Petrie; juvenile Wren at Sumburgh - Jim Wood
Fetlar: Snow
Bunting and Pintail.
Snow Bunting on Fetlar -
Gary Bell
Unst: Kestrel,
Chiffchaff and a Swallow at Norwick. 2 Swallows at
Haroldswick.
Gannets at Hermaness -
Charlie Inkster
Yell: 5 Sanderlings
at Cullivoe.
Central Mainland:
Siskin at Voe. Shoveler at Loch of Trondavoe.
West Mainland:
Swallow at Skeld.
Cetaceans:
2 Killer Whales off Sumburgh Head.
Sunday 17th June 2012
South Mainland: Marsh Warbler at Sumburgh Head. 6 Canada Geese at Sumburgh Hotel. Hawfinch at Geosetter. Red-necked Phalarope at Hillwell.
Hawfinch at Ocraquoy - Jim
Wood; Wrens and Common Gulls at Sumburgh - Ray Johnston
Unst: Chiffchaff at Norwick. Siskin at Haroldswick. Swift at Colvadale. 3 Sanderlings at Easting.
Ringed Plover chick on
Unst - Mike Pennington
Yell: 8 Sanderlings at Cullivoe.
Puffin and Dunlin at
Burravoe, Yell - Charlie Inkster
Saturday
16th June 2012
South Mainland: Reed Warbler at Sumburgh Head. Common Whitethroat and 4 Gadwall at Hillwell. Blackcap at Quendale. Robin, Chiffchaff, 2 Spotted Flycatchers and 3 Common Redpolls at Gulberwick.
Reed Warbler at Sumburgh - Jim Wood
Yell: 4 Sanderlings at Cullivoe.
Sanderling at Cullivoe - Jim Nangle
Ringed Plover chick on
Unst - Mike Pennington
Friday 15th June 2012
Central Mainland:
White-tailed Eagle 2 km N of Laxo. Golden Oriole at Kergord. 2 Barnacle Geese at Catfirth.
South Mainland:
Common Redstart and Lesser Whitethroat at Sumburgh Head.
Long-eared Owl and Reed Bunting at Quendale.
Oystercatcher, Skylark, Arctic
Skua and Whimbrel atClumlie - Jim Wood; Golden Plover at Cunningsburgh - George
Petrie; Linnets at Sumburgh - Jim Nicolson
Whalsay: Black
Redstart, Common Whitethroat and Chiffchaff at Hamister.
Reed Warbler at Skibberhoull. Common Whitethroat at Skaw.
Thursday 14th June 2012
Fetlar:
Pectoral Sandpiper
at Funzie.
Yell: 3 Sanderlings
at Cullivoe.
Sanderlings at Cullivoe - Jim
Nangle
South Mainland: Reed Warbler
and Blackcap at Quendale. Blackcap and Chiffchaff at Exnaboe. Scaup and Gadwall at Hillwell.
Linnet at Sumburgh - Jim
Nicolson; Dunlin, Shelducks and Ringed Plover at Boddam - Jim Wood
Unst: Sparrowhawk,
Spotted Flycatcher and Chiffchaff at Baltasound.
Wednesday 13th June 2012
South Mainland: Reed Warbler
and Blackcap at Quendale. Pomarine Skua at Grutness. Spotted Flycatcher and Short-eared Owl at Virkie.
Reed Warbler at Quendale - Jim
Nicolson (3 photos); Reed Warbler (2 photos) and Blackcap at Quendale and Wren
at Sumburgh - Jim Wood
Unst: Snow Bunting
still
on Saxa Vord. Lesser Whitethroat and Chiffchaff. 2 Long-tailed
Ducks and 2 Sanderlings at Skaw.
Whalsay: Black
Redstart at Hamister.
Central Mainland: 9 Common Scoters at Dales Lees.
Tuesday 12th June 2012
South Mainland:
Long-eared Owl, Reed Warbler, Blackcap and Spotted
Flycatcher at Quendale. Common Whitethroat and Spotted Flycatcher at
Scatness. Black Redstart at Grutness. 2 Common Swifts over Loch of
Spiggie. Hawfinch and Chiffchaff at Geosetter.
Puffins at Sumburgh - John
Moncrieff; Shelduck at Boddam - Jim Nicolson; Arctic Skua at Cunningsburgh -
George Petrie
Eider and Dunlin at Boddam,
Twite at Sumburgh and Reed Warbler and Blackcap at Quendale - Jim Wood
West Mainland: 4
Common Redpolls and 2 singing Common Whitethroats at Gairdens o'
Sand.
Unst: Snow Bunting
on Saxa Vord, Yellow Wagtail and Reed Bunting at Skaw. Iceland Gull at Norwick.
Yell: 3 Goosanders
at Gutcher. 2 Sanderlings at Cullivoe.
Arctic Skua and Oystercatcher at
Cullivoe - Jim Nangle
Monday 11th June 2012
Fetlar: 1st summer
White-billed Diver still off Brough Lodge.
Red-backed Shrike at Feal Burn.
South Mainland:
Marsh Warbler at Sumburgh. Icterine Warbler at Toab. Bluethroat
at Exnaboe.
Wren and Fulmar at Sumburgh - Jim Wood;
solitary Shelduck duckling at Boddam Voe - Jim Nicolson
Out Skerries:
Red-backed Shrike, Fieldfare, Spotted Flycatcher, 2 House
Martin, Swallow, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and
Blackcap.
Central Mainland:
Sparrowhawk at Sound, Lerwick.
Unst: Robin,
Sanderling and Yellow Wagtail at Skaw. Lesser Whitethroat at
Norwick. Willow Warbler, Sparrowhawk and at least 25 Wood
Pigeons at Baltasound.
Arctic Terns at Mid Yell - Charlie Inkster
Sunday 10th June 2012
Fetlar: 1st summer
White-billed Diver off Brough Lodge.
Chiffchaff at Tresta. Red-backed Shrike and Reed Warbler
at Feal Burn. Spotted Flycatcher at Houbie. Spotted Flycatcher and Blackcap at Funzie.
Out Skerries:
Red-backed Shrike, Sedge Warbler, 2 Spotted Flycatchers, 2
House Martins, Swallow, Blackcap, 2 Willow Warblers and
Chiffchaff.
Whalsay: Icterine
Warbler at Symbister.
Bressay: Spotted
Flycatcher at Voehead.
South Mainland: 2
Hawfinches at Bigton. Common Whitethroat at Swinister. Hawfinch,
Long-eared Owl, Spotted Flycatcher, Chiffchaff and
Blackcap at Geosetter. Reed Warbler, Dunnock and Blackcap
at Quendale. Chiffchaff at Virkie.
Ringed Plover, Puffin,
Fulmars and Razorbill at Compass Head - John Moncrieff; Long-eared owl at
Quendale, Balck Guillemot and Fular at Grutness and Whimbrel at Clumlie -
Jim Wood
West Mainland:
Common Whitethroat, 2 Robins and 4 Common Crossbills at
Gairdins o' Sand. 9 Whooper Swans flew north over Semblister.
Common Crossbill at Sand - Rory
Tallack; Common Whitethroat at Sand - Julie Redpath
North Mainland:
Sparrowhawk at Oxensetter.
Sparrowhawk at Oxensetter - Stan
Brown
Unst: Reed Bunting
at Skaw. Iceland Gull at Norwick.
Reed Bunting at Skaw -
Tony Gerrard; Red-throated Diver at Uyeasound - Jim Nangle
Otters - John Moncrieff
Saturday 9th June 2012
Out Skerries:
Red-backed Shrike, Ring Ouzel, Song Thrush, Sedge Warbler,
2 House Martin, Swallow and Dunlin.
Fetlar: Red-backed
Shrike and Song Thrush at Feal Burn.
7 Swallows at Papil Water. Chiffchaff
at Tresta. Spotted Flycatcher at Houbie. Blackcap at Funzie.
South Mainland:
Hawfinch at Geosetter. 6 Sanderlings,
Grey-headed Wagtail, Garden Warbler and Chaffinch at
Scatness.
Grey-headed Wagtail at Scatness
- Roger Riddington
Whalsay: Marsh
Warbler, Blackcap and Common Whitethroat at Marrister.
Sparrowhawk, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat,
Blackcap, Common Redstart and Chiffchaff at Skaw. Spotted
Flycatcher and Chiffchaff at Hamister .
Friday 8th June 2012
Out Skerries:
Red-backed Shrike, Song Thrush, 4 House Martins, 3 Swallows,
Spotted Flycatcher, Common Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler and
Dunlin.
South Mainland:
Long-eared Owl, Spotted Flycatcher and Common Whitethroat at
Quendale. Spotted Flycatcher and Willow Warbler at Cunningsburgh. Swift at Sumburgh Head.
Spotted Flycatcher at
Cunningsburgh - Jim Nicolson; Greylag Geese at Ocraquoy - George Petrie; Skylark
at Clumlie - Jim Wood
Central Mainland: 11
Common Scoters at Dales Voe. Sparrowhawk and Common Crossbill
at Dale, north of Voe. Cuckoo at Scatsta.
Cuckoo at Scatsta - Kevin
Jackson
Unst: Chiffchaff
at Norwick.
Thursday 7th June 2012
Out Skerries:
Red-backed Shrike, 2 Chiffchaffs, Swallow and Blackcap.
Unst: 2 House
Martins and 2 Swallows at Skaw. Chiffchaff at Norwick. Reed
Warbler at Haroldswick.
Fetlar: Chiffchaff
at Tresta. Spotted Flycatcher at Houbie.
Chiffchaff on Fetlar - Jim
Nangle
Bressay: Spotted
Flycatcher at Voehead.
Central Mainland:
Wood Pigeon at Voe.
West Mainland:
Glaucous Gull at Dale of Walls.
South Mainland: Long-eared Owl at Quendale. Swift at Sumburgh Hotel.
Meadow Pipit at Clumlie -
Jim Wood; Dunlin and Eiders at Sandwick - Jim Nicolson
Wednesday 6th June 2012
Out Skerries:
Swallow and Chiffchaff.
Yell: Swallow
at Cullivoe.
Tuesday 5th June 2012
South Mainland:
Red-backed Shrike at Cunningsburgh. Chiffchaff at
Virkie. Long-eared Owl at Quendale.
Chiffchaff at Virkie, Whimbrel
at Boddam and Red-throated Diver at Grutness - Jim Wood; Long-eared Owl at
Quendale - Roger Riddington
Redshank, Skylark, Lapwing and
Curlew at Cunningsburgh - George Petrie
Out Skerries:
Swallow, Chiffchaff and 2 Willow Warblers.
Unst:
Iceland Gull at Norwick.
Yell: White-tailed
Eagle at Herra.
West Mainland:
Common Whitethroat at Gairdins o' Sand.
Cetaceans:
Minke Whale through Bluemull Sound
Monday 4th June 2012
South Mainland: Knot at
Grutness.
Knot and Whimbrel at Grutness -
George Petrie; Sanderling, Whimbrel and Knot at Grutness - Jim Nicolson; Arctic
Tern and Knot at Grutness - Jim Wood
Out Skerries:
47 Knot flying north, Chiffchaff and
Willow Warbler.
Unst: 2
Iceland Gulls at Norwick.
Iceland Gull at Norwick - Jim
Nangle
Curlew at Ollaberry - Charles
Gifford
Sunday 3rd June 2012
South Mainland;
Wryneck at Sumburgh early morning. Long-eared Owl at Quendale. Short-eared
Owl at Virkie. Spotted Flycatcher at Scatness. Knot at
Grutness. 2 Black-tailed Godwits near Boddam.
Knot at Gutness, Common
Snipe at Spiggie; Raven at Quendale - Jim Wood
Black-tailed Godwits,
Ravens and Arctic Skua around Boddam - John Moncrieff
Mallard and Meadow Pipit
at Ollaberry; Arctic Tern at Heylor - Charles Gifford
Saturday 2nd June 2012
South Mainland: Subalpine Warbler still at Quendale; also Osprey, Marsh Warbler and Long-eared Owl there. Little Egret at Spiggie. Golden Oriole at Levenwick. Short-eared Owl at Virkie. Spotted Flycatcher at Scatness. Pied Flycatcher at Cunningsburgh.
Pied Flycatcher at Cunningsburgh - Jim Nicolson; Spotted Flycatcher at Scatness - Ronnie Robertson; Snipe at Brow Marsh - George Petrie
Red-throated Diver and Skylark at Spiggie, and Dunlin at Boddam - Jim Wood
Central Mainland: Common Crane at Tingwall.
Out Skerries: Common Scoter, Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaffs, Willow Warbler and a dead Short-eared Owl.
Unst: 4 Sanderling at Skaw.
Friday 1st June 2012
Yell: Black-headed Bunting still at Gloup.
Black-headed Bunting at Gloup - Larry Dalziel (1 photo), Jim Nicolson (2 photos)
South Mainland: Subalpine Warbler and Long-eared Owl at Quendale. Long-eared Owl and 2 Chiffchaffs at Virkie. Short-eared Owl at Toab. Spotted Flycatcher at Scatness.
Long-eared Owl at Virkie, Spotted Flycatcher at Scatness and Whimbrel at Boddam - Jim Wood
Central Mainland: Iceland Gull at Lerwick.
Unst: 3 Goosanders and a Shoveler at Uyeasound.
Goosanders at Uyeasound - Jim Nangle
Out Skerries: Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff and 2 Willow Warblers.
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