From Tony Marr: 'this morning a white-morph Gyrfalcon was circling over the Butt of Lewis (10.33 hours) before dropping down low over the fields and heading off south a few minutes later. It was initially high in the sky and against the clouds, and although I took a number of pictures the light was very poor and it was starting to rain. The bird had a very full crop. Since then I have been looking for it all day without any luck.
'With better weather today and birds on the move, I was not surprised to find only 3 Iceland Gulls at the Port of Ness cliff roost this evening. There were 190 Golden Plover on the machair behind the Ness Social Club (the first Goldies seen since Thursday 9th).'
On North Uist this morning in the Rubh' Arnal area there were 79 Brent Geese, at least 4 Iceland and at least 5 Glaucous Gulls. Another Glaucous Gull was reported by Bill Allan on the 'Airport beach' at Balivanich.
The supposed Tree Sparrow that has been in a Bayhead garden intermittently since mid-December last year is definitely a hybrid House x Tree. Apparently hybrids of these are quite rare.
Gyrfalcon - Tony Marr
'With better weather today and birds on the move, I was not surprised to find only 3 Iceland Gulls at the Port of Ness cliff roost this evening. There were 190 Golden Plover on the machair behind the Ness Social Club (the first Goldies seen since Thursday 9th).'
On North Uist this morning in the Rubh' Arnal area there were 79 Brent Geese, at least 4 Iceland and at least 5 Glaucous Gulls. Another Glaucous Gull was reported by Bill Allan on the 'Airport beach' at Balivanich.
The supposed Tree Sparrow that has been in a Bayhead garden intermittently since mid-December last year is definitely a hybrid House x Tree. Apparently hybrids of these are quite rare.
Gyrfalcon - Tony Marr