That's why birders go to Iceland...

Couldn't resist going to see the Harlequin Duck in Aberdeen on Saturday, I heard it had been showing well, but I had not quite expected it to be showing quite as well as it actually did. It looks rather settled as well, may stay to become even more stunning yet?

Harl...

On the way back the female King Eider quite conveniently (for my mates in the car, who had never seen one) was seen off Kincraig Point, so we went to see that. Difficult viewing and it took about 20 minutes or so to pick up in difficult viewing conditions. I quite like female King Eider, and the accompanying rafts of Velvet Scoter offshore were a bit of a treat.

Spent Sunday checking the local areas in the AM, very little about and no sign of the Tundra Bean Goose with the Greylag flock, but looks like flock has broken off into two, so presumably its around somewhere with a handful of Greylags. I spent the afternoon at North Shields Fish Quay which was really good, the 2nd winter Iceland Gull was showing fantastically and remaining faithful to one particular spot underneath a ship. Later in the day towards 15:30 I picked up a juvenile Iceland Gull drifting into view from behind part of the Fish Quay, it eventually came out to play and had pretty good views. No sign of any Glaucs though. 

2nd win Ice...

Not even Photoshop could save my horrendous camera work at 15:30. Juv Ice...