Our recent North Ronaldsay and Orkney holiday proved quite exciting! Despite a long spell of strong westerlies our final days on North Ron came up trumps. We managed to relocate an American Golden Plover seen briefly in flight earlier by one of the Observatory staff. The simple instructions  were shout if you see any Plover with a black belly as we drove around looking. Within two minutes Angie pointed to a bird a few hundred yards away and exclaimed “do you think that’s it?”………….it was!

Then, hearing of a Sandhill Crane, only the third for Britain, on Orkney mainland we dashed from the airport on our way back to the ferry to find it. With just minutes to spare, we located it in a stubble field at Windwick!

It was a most enjoyable trip,  now just need to crack on with the trip report…..

John Poyner