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Happy Thanksgiving?
It 's okay with these Turkeys if you want to wait til Christmas.
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Some of the 16 Bean Goose I saw on the way to the "Shop" yesterday.
I saw one White Fronted Goose among them and a few Greylag. plus 5 Barnacle Geese still present |
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Barnacle Goose |
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2 of the 3 Swans hanging about the Isle. |
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Little Auk & Scaup found washed up on the South Haven Beach |
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Raising the wind turbine, man power for wind power! |
It is times like these when all the young able body men get together that you quickly realize we are all over 40
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The Reed Bunting from a few days ago... but I did not see it today the crop is all cut now and it my have moved on? |
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Dunnock (ringed) still hanging around... could stay for the winter? |
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Large flock of Snow Buntings viewed from my garden.
In the South Harbour? |
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What's that? |
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Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus |
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2 Little Gulls probably the best rare birds that I have blundered into in the past few days...
I found them in the South Harbour driving back from the "Shop" yesterday.
Two is a good record for Fair Isle.
I made special effort to make a record shot with both birds in frame for any of you doubters out there. |
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Plenty of Purple Sandpipers like this one. |
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Welcome home & Happy Thanksgiving from Fair Isle. |
hi, i'm starting here to read throguh your whole solstice season -- somehow your community seems to be closer to it than mine here in albuquerque. is the wind turbine to provide power for the whole island?
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