Awesome, nice one Bruce. That’s a random loch!

As was initially suspected, they are actually both Oriental Turtle Doves.

Nearly stepping on this Grey Phalarope was a nice bonus on the last day. A shame I left my camera in the car! #irishbirding

AGPs viewed from Doonshean maps.app.goo.gl/trC4cSZSCmiR... @birdguides.bsky.social

Orkney has a sawfly recorder so by the sounds of it I don’t think NBN will be up to date. I assume some of the off islands will be sparsley recorded though as we had the first sawfly records for North Ronaldsay last summer.

It’s a super early season. They started leaving early July and now they’re all gone. They were generally a week ahead for most of the season but increased gull pressure at the end of June/early July may have pushed many them of out prematurely.

Thanks Julian! @n-richards.bsky.social is on here, he just hasn’t posted yet :)

It’s an adult - whoops!

Yeah. We’ve been getting a lot of early waders through here for the last few weeks. Joel got some nice pics I can send you later.

Possibly but I think if it was malnutrition then there would evidence away from the bill e.g a moult limit in the flight feathers.

This is the only bird online that looks similar. Aged as a 3cy (which ours could well be). brucemactavish1.blogspot.com/2016/08/blac...