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annelouiseavery.bsky.social Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · Sep 6
For sale on my little Etsy store – "Shell Nature Studies: September Flyway" in excellent condition. "An Autumn rush of migrants...driven across the North Sea." www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
"Coasting down Scotland's chain of northern islands and East Highland shores, comes an autumn rush of migrants, many driven across the North Sea by the prevailing easterly winds. Hatched this year in Lapland, a juvenile red-spotted bluethroat crouches in the shelter of the brambles; also from Scandinavia comes a member of the 'white' or continental race of the pied wagtail and that big, noisy thrush, the fieldfare. The snow-buntings may have come from Iceland, the Lapland bunting from Greenland. On passage to the warm Mediterranean and Africa are our familiar willow- and garden-warblers, and the rare barred warbler from Western Siberia, most frequent in Britain in the north isles at migration-time. Refuelling on the oat-stook is an Africa-bound turtle-dove; above it hawks a red-backed shrike. Often in September the common heron wanders north from its breeding-grounds. The herring-gulls, residents through the year and opportunists always, glean among the stubbles." "Coasting down Scotland's chain of northern islands and East Highland shores, comes an autumn rush of migrants, many driven across the North Sea by the prevailing easterly winds. Hatched this year in Lapland, a juvenile red-spotted bluethroat crouches in the shelter of the brambles; also from Scandinavia comes a member of the 'white' or continental race of the pied wagtail and that big, noisy thrush, the fieldfare. The snow-buntings may have come from Iceland, the Lapland bunting from Greenland. On passage to the warm Mediterranean and Africa are our familiar willow- and garden-warblers, and the rare barred warbler from Western Siberia, most frequent in Britain in the north isles at migration-time. Refuelling on the oat-stook is an Africa-bound turtle-dove; above it hawks a red-backed shrike. Often in September the common heron wanders north from its breeding-grounds. The herring-gulls, residents through the year and opportunists always, glean among the stubbles."
September 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM