A quiet start to the day. I walked along to Burness and continued around the coast to check out a few crofts and then up past the Baltasound Hotel, but migrants were very thin on the ground. After an early lunch we headed over to Skaw and Norwick where we spent most of the remainder of the day. There were lots more birds here; a few Robins, Blackcaps, Whinchat, Wheatears, 2 Siberian Chiffchaffs, 4 Yellow-browed Warblers and 3 Tree Pipits. Martin flushed a pipit from the gully at Valyie that called like a Pechora but after walking up and down the field that Martin thought it had landed in, we had to give up. Our search did kick up the Little Bunting that had been resident at Norwick for a few days, but the best bird (again!) for the day was Olive-backed Pipit. As we were searching for the possible Pechora, a pipit came in high, calling "tseeet" and flew around above us. It had obvious bold black and white markings underneath and then headed north over the sheep fields. We headed back over to Valyie and although we didn't find Pechora, we did find an Olive-backed Pipit, perhaps the same bird that had just flown over us minutes earlier. The bird remained fairly faithful to the gully area but ventured all the way from the very top to the most lower sycamore trees.
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| Siberian Chiffchaff, Norwick, Unst |
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| Siberian Chiffchaff, Norwick, Unst |
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| Little Bunting, Norwick, Unst |
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| Little Bunting, Norwick, Unst |
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| Olive-backed Pipit, Norwick, Unst |
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| Olive-backed Pipit, Norwick, Unst |
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| Olive-backed Pipit, Norwick, Unst |
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