Bonxie

Or great skua. On North Ronaldsay today. Pretty windy, so glad the bike is E. It was also nice to come across a new hide. It is at Ancum Loch and still has that piney new-hide smell! That's where I shot the skua. There was an Arctic skua there too briefly and another two at South Bay.
At Ancum I saw a very small bird near some terns that I thought was a wader chick but before I could photo it ,it flew up and I think it migh have been a Temmincks stint reported yesterday from a loch a couple of miles away. I did look at images and descriptions last night, but without a photo I wouldn't be confident in claiming it. I did get a new bird when I stopped at a place called Holland and staff from the North Ron Obsevatory had just ringed a nightjar, which they showed me before release. Extra is a landscape at Bewan .