Sunday 20 January 2013

First Diver

A quick detour this afternoon on my way home from a trip out to South Ronaldsay took me to Echna Bay and Echna Loch.

The lock itself was fairly quiet with a variety of ducks, mainly Tufted Duck and Mallard with a solitary Goldeneye, but nothing new for the Patch List.

The bay was also fairly quiet. There were a few Long-tailed Ducks and couple a Great Black-backed Gulls out in the bay itself and at least 40 Fulmars on the small cliff to the North side of the bay.

Then up popped a Great Northern Diver in the bay fairly close to the shore giving me another new species for the Patch List.

That gives me my 37th species so far and a total of 43 points.

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