Sooty Tern, Ythan Estuary, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire 25/7/2018

Surely the most unusual visitor and most reported locally and beyond for some time, a Sooty Tern a bird usually found in the tropics and mentioned in the culture of Easter Island. Also seen at Newburgh, Spoonbill, Osprey, Black-tailed and Bar-tailed Godwits, Knot, Dunlin and more.
While up north I went to Cairnbulg near Fraserburgh where a Black Tern had been reported but despite hanging around another birder and I couldn't locate it.

Sooty Tern on the roost near the Inches, click here for video  taken with a Canon SX60 at an extreme zoom setting. Will play on YouTube in HD if selected in the settings

Corn Bunting waking up to find it was being filmed, click here for video also in HD from a distance

Sooty Tern underwing, in good light it's very much a black and white looking bird

Sooty Tern upperwing

I've posted what I got as I'll never likely see this species again. Unless I get a passport

Calling, it was replying to a call being played by photographers which didn't go down well with many of the birders watching the bird

Sharing a roost with Sandwich Terns

Little Tern, also at the Ythan Estuary along with Sandwich, Arctic and Common Terns

Little Tern

Corn Bunting, taken into the light with my Canon SX60. I think this is the female of a pair I surveyed today, it looks freshly moulted especially when compared to the males I saw

Skylark, seen while carrying out my last Corn Bunting survey for 2018