Shetland Highlights: Milky Tea and Swainson's Thrush!!

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The Swainson's Thrush Twitch
Well sorry for any updates recently but the house in Shetland does not have any WiFi!! So basically what we have seen has included some Yellow-browed Warblers,a Marsh Warbler,good number of Autumn migrants like Bramblings, Siskins and Redstarts. However the highlight of the trip so far was us finding a Swainson’s Thrush at Levenwick Quarry!!!

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Skev said…
And Gropper of course ....
4 October 2010 at 20:19
davidearlgray said…
Yep thanks Skev, we are human after all!!
4 October 2010 at 20:38
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