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  • When here in the Outer Hebrides and looking at a bird, have you ever wondered how rare it is? The status of all species can vary enormously from island to island. How rare is Shoveler on Barra, has Stock Dove been seen on Harris, does Dotterel occur on Benbecula in the autumn, and how common is Blue Tit on North Uist? Well, fret no longer! The Status and Distribution of birds here on the Outer Hebrides has been completely updated and summarised for every species and each of the main islands and outliers. Available as an online resource at https://status.outerhebrides-birdreports.org/ or via our shop

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    3rd January 2021

    There was four Coot on the Loch on New Years morning but maybe they were scared of by the six white tailed eagles that were also by the side of the Loch. I’m only up to 51 species but that’s only from the garden and an hours watching on New Years morning on Benbecula
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    29th July 2019

    At least 25 Painted Ladies in the garden at Carnan today. Most looked extremely fresh so guess they’ve hatched locally not like one I seen before this year that were extremely worn and faded.
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    First Trip

    Hi Martyn, I would recommend a boat trip with Nick Ingledew with Lady Anne Boat trips out of Kallin on Grimsay. www.uistboattrips.com
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    30th March 2019

    Male Blackcap in the garden this evening
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    National Rarity 4th February 2019

    There were 14 Little Grebes on the Loch on Saturday. Paul
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    13th November 2018

    At Kyles Paible today there were 2 small Canada Geese with 850 Barnies and 270 Greylags with 400 Golden Plover and 42 Redshank in the same field. On Baleshare there were another 800 Barnacle Geese and 458 Greylags in that horrible bit of ground in between the roads where it’s hard to get a good...
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    Local Rarity 6th August 2018

    It’s that time of year again with the Starlings coming to roost in the trees in the garden, but I’ve just been watching a bizarre site with a Grey Heron acrobaticly attempting to catch Starlings out of the flock in flight. I’ve never seen Herons fly like that before. As far as I could tell it...
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    Local Rarity 1st January 2018

    No I didn’t have anything unusual but did pick up almost all of the wader species one could reasonably expect in Uist in winter with the exception of Snipe and had the three Little Egrets at Loch Mor. I was most impressed with the total as I only visited Loch Bee and Benbecula so could have...
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    Local Rarity 1st January 2018

    I also spent most of yesterday out in the field and when I entered my records on BirdTrack it told me i’d seen 60 species and considering I didn’t see lots of easy ones I was most impressed.
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    Scottish Rarity 9th October 2017

    A Great White Egret was on Loch Olabhat by the road to Griminish Harbour on North Uist at 12:15 today
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    Local Rarity 30th September 2017

    This morning at West Gerinish there was an American Golden Plover amongst 450+ Golden Plover as well as 89 Black Tailed Godwit and 6 Ruff. There was a further 16 Blackwits at Penninerine.
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    Scottish Rarity 27th April 2017

    On the Range Hebrides today numbers of Golden Plover were slightly lower with just over 2000 being present, also 86 Whimbrel and 2 Lapland Bunting
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    Showing my ignorance.......

    Meadow Pipit
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    15th April 2017

    When I was on the range this afternoon there was just less than 1000 Golden Plover! Also about 600 on Torlum machair and 800 at Balelone on North Uist where there was also 2200 Barnacle Geese. I guess they're waiting for the wind to change.
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    13th April 2017

    On Benbecula this morning there was: Greenland White-fronted Geese - 14 by Loch Fada and 38 near Loch Mor Black Tailed Godwit - 36 by Coot Loch, 17 by Loch Fada and 1 by Loch Mor Ravens on ruin at Griminish have very large young already.
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    12th April 2017

    Looks good for Cackling Goose to me and an excellent photo with a good mix of geese
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