{"id":32357,"date":"2023-02-11T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=32357"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:50:39","slug":"shetland-trip-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/shetland-trip-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Shetland Trip – 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

My annual trip to Unst took place during 23rd September to 1st October. Our first port of call on arrival into Lerwick was at Gulberwick on mainland, for a smart drake Surf Scoter. Unfortunately too far to photograph.<\/p>\n

On arrival on Unst our first decent bird was a Woodchat Shrike at Feall, then followed by a Slavonian Grebe at Norwick and a Great Northern Diver at Uyeasound. Later in the day we had a Yellow-browed Warbler and 3 Common Rosefinch at Valyie. <\/p>\n

During the rest of the week we managed to pick-up a decent bird on most days. A Storm Petrel and a Red-backed Shrike on 25th Sept. A drake Long-tailed Duck, a Barred Warbler and a Snow Bunting on 27th Sept. Red-breasted Flycatcher, Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll and a Blythe’s Reed Warbler on 29th Sept. We had several cool encounters with Otter during our week.<\/p>\n

Some horrendous weather during the end of the week prevented any proper birding, but on 1st October, back on mainland, we had another Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll, a Great Grey Shrike of the race Homeyeri <\/em>and bird of the week, a Swainson’s Thrush at Mid-Yell. Finishing off with a 1st winter drake King Eider at Wester Quarf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barred Warbler – Norwick, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barred Warbler – Norwick, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Rosefinch – Valyie, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great Grey Shrike – race Homeyeri<\/em> – Hillswick, Mainland Shetland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll – Hillswick, Mainland Shetland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll – Hillswick, Mainland Shetland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll – Uyeasound, Unst – always distant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Redpoll – Clingera, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Otter – Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Otter – Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red-backed Shrike – Clingera, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow-browed Warbler – Clingera, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow-browed Warbler – Clingera, Unst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swainson’s Thrush – Mid Yell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swainson’s Thrush – Mid Yell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My annual trip to Unst took place during 23rd September to 1st October. Our first port of call on arrival into Lerwick was at Gulberwick on mainland, for a smart drake Surf Scoter. Unfortunately too far to photograph. On arrival on Unst our first decent bird was a Woodchat Shrike at Feall, then followed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,18,725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-667","category-birds","category-birdsof2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}