Noth Sea Migration - Part III

 Returning to the North Sea Area known as the South Halibut Basin, but more particularly the

FLOATING OIL PRODUCTION PLATFORM
BUCHAN ALPHA

we come to the final Post featuring the Birds of that area, but maybe later we will also introduce some of the other wildlife recorded at that location.

KITTIWAKE

just a few of an overnight crowd of

REED BUNTING

PEREGRINE FALCON
sat atop of a

GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL

caught later in the day by the Deck Foreman (Ricky the Hammer) who quickly knocked up this

Wooden Cage
made out a manifest and transported it to the beach via Bristow Helicopters!

RINGED PLOVER

GARDEN WARBLER

SKYLARK

DUNLIN

YELLOWHAMMER
(you'll need to squint)

COMMON TERN

Just after 00:01 on the date ??-??-?? of my birth into the Control Room stroad the Duty Night Engineer anouncing he had a present for me and from the bag he produce this

LITTLE STINT
best such gift ever recieved!

MERLIN
(dining on Redwing)

MEADOW PIPIT

KNOT

(MEALY) REDPOLL

JACKSNIPE
(prone, for whatever reason, to flying 'kamakazi' style into windows?)

BLACKCAP
(head to tail)

GREY PLOVER
and finally, breakfast in the Control Room, mad dash to the upper-deck at the turn of the watch and

a Skylark waiting for me at the far end of the Heli-Deck. Most birds landing onboard are 'cream crackered' as was this individual taken below to be dried, warmed, 'snapped' and further inspected to find that it was a Lark but in fact

not that as first thought, in fact a far more 'rare' species

SHORT-TOED LARK
What a way to end a series!!