Western Isles / Outer Hebrides bird sightings for today, 30th October 2019. Updated throughout the day
The Butt of Lewis
A Snow Bunting was seen there today
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
A Sooty Shearwater was seen today 4Km East of Stornoway
Borve, Berneray
A juvenile
dark-bellied Brent Goose, juvenile Greenland White-fronted Goose, 2 Pink-footed Geese and a Canada Goose were seen along with 835 Barnacle Geese and 369 Greylags on today
Langass Woods, North Uist
Apart from the
Two-Barred Crossbills, 200+ Siskins, 2 Bramblings and 2 Fieldfare were also seen there today
Balivanich, Benbecula
A
Black Redstart was seen at the hospital today
Ardivachar, South Uist
The **
Lesser Yellowlegs** was seen on pool at the north end of the Range and a single
**White-Rumped Sandpiper** was at
Ardivachar Point. [
see post below]A
Pectoral Sandpiper was nearby at
Lauch Area 2
Ruhba Ardvule, South Uist
Counting period: 07:30 - 11:20
Weather: Wind SE f3, prolonged bright and sunny periods. Temp 6 - 9C.
A near 4 hour seawatch this morning produced 9 Eider (1S 8N), 1 Common Scoter [female] (S), 2 long-tailed Ducks (1S 1N), 1 Red-breasted Merganser (S), 8 Red-throated Divers (7S 1N), 6 Gannets (1S 5N), 43 Shag (10S 33N), 2 Cormorants (1S 1N), 4 auk sp (3S 1N), 1 Peregine (S - headed out to sea), 295 Starlings (Flew SE over the sea), 12 Meadow Pipits (S - arrived off the sea) and 130 Twite (Flew SE out over the sea).
Also present in the area were Greylag Goose 42, Wigeon 5, Teal 3, Tufted Duck 71, Scaup 1, Eider 25, Long-tailed Duck 43, Red-breasted Merganser 5, Red-throated Diver 4, Great Northern Diver 3,
White-tailed Eagle 2, Golden Plover 71, Ringed Plover 56, Bar-tailed Godwit 11, Black-tailed Godwit 8, Turnstone 54, Snipe 7, Redshank 33, Kestrel 1,
Merlin 1, Peregrine 1, Hooded Crow 2, Raven 2, Skylark 6, Rock Pipit 2 and Twite 29
Sooty Shearwater (C) and courtesy of Steve Dodd