He's never come across any. But we are in regular contact. Seems to be. I give him a bat. He gives me a Storm Petrel! Welcome to Shetland!

We ir facing a similar issue in Shetland. D new Viking Energy WF wee 100, 150m turbines are averaging c2+ million a month in payback from government in dumped energy. Locally. They give us 2million in local benefits a year! if we meet the 'requirements' o the fund. <20% o energy goes to grid!

That would then make them re-introduced then? Introduced does tend to make you think they shouldn't be there

Now now lads, just cos the rest o you 'big listers' hae all these fancy lenses 🤣 it's there somewhere, just play some wheres Wally😂
I've just released a 3rd one tonight. Getting calls daily at this rate for slipping them!

I've spoken tae wir guy (Peter Guillver) and he says he's no come across it in Shetland's 'migrant bats' as we don't have a resident pop
In another note I need to make sure I get you the samples o my flatflies next year, keep collecting them n misplacing in the frantic-ness that is the summer!

Shetland as a whole! 2 breeding records in 100 years? 1 on a house near kergord. The other on the cliffs o Noss among the seabirds!

No that I keen o. But I can check with the guy who deals with them here. Would you be keen on getting them Denise if he does?

Well I'd actually stopped off to look at a Dog Rose bush full of red berries when I found the kite, maybe I should stick to that 🤣. Red-F Falcon? Red-t Hawk? Red-winged Blackbird? Stick to the berries and get the birds!

Glad somewan got a photo, you dunna want to see my field sketch 🤣

Found during a mid-survey snooze?😂

I suppose the next piece of data needed, is how waders/Lapwing act in the UK in more 'rewilded/natural' landscapes, as I imagine this buffer won't exist like it does here. As otherwise, how can we ever have functioning ecosystems again in this country

All that slogging round Yell and you don't even need to get out the car for some good scarce/rares, car birding is clearly where it's at!

And even one of the chicks from a tagged pair was recovered recently, likely as a breeding male about 2km away, though likely a bird flu death sadly, in 10 years it's my first chick recovered as an adult/breeding bird

And what tales we've had since then! The last 3 years we've had recoveries o 5 birds, 1 dead (with GLS), 2 caught by me, one of which that we hadn't caught since 2018, and it still had it's GLS attached! With data retrieved! still glad the project is getting more data even now, Dave would be pleased

Surprised with Hoodies as I've encountered probably hundreds of ground nests in heather, and ringed a number, most plantations here and lone trees tend to have them as well if habitat available

It was first recorded here in the 1970s and also noted in Orkney per the Birds of Shetland, it's my 3rd heather nester in recent years