The very same day as this news came in Brian Minshull was driving north on the A1 and with a bit of modern technology and some old fashioned phone calls he was able to home in and find this small group of birds.
Two days or so later Larry Griffin was telling us that he had picked up a tagged bird just off the coast at St Andrews It then transpired that this flock of birds didn't like the look of the cloud covered North Sea and headed towards the granite city of Aberdeen before they found some clear weather out over the sea. After a night of rest and a good forecast they set off eastwards towards Scandanavia. Landfall was in northern Denmark where all of the birds eventually met up and remained. Feeding inland and roosting on the sea. ate
The latest news of our birds is that they have arrived in Norway on the Glomma river and no doubt feeding up before their final migratory flight north into Sweden? Image below courtesy of Simon Rix
Let's hope that they arrive in an area with a mobile phone network so that we can at last find out just where breeding occurs.
