6th October 2017

[Hawkeye]

North Locheynort, South Uist
A Willow Warbler, male Blackcap and 2 Mealy Redpolls seen this morning. A Chiffchaff, 12+ Common Redpolls and a Siskin were seen later.

Druidibeg Plantation, South Uist
A Yellow-browed Warbler, Willow Warbler and 2 Common Redpolls present today.

Stoneybridge, South Uist
2 Lapland Buntings seen today

Loch Rog, South Uist
A female Scaup seen on the loch

Stornoway Castle Grounds, Isle of Lewis
A Crossbill, 3 Redwings and around 100 Lesser Redpolls were by the sawmillthis morning.

News relating to one of the juvenile Little Stints seen at Loch Ordais, Lewis on Monday (2nd October). It had been colour ringed on Sep 12th at Makkevika Bird Reservation, Island of Giske, Møre & Romsdal, Norway. (See map)
By coincidence, a Little Stint ringed on the same day at the same site in Norway was seen at Topsham, Devon on the 18th September

 

[BrianR]

Only a very brief seawatch at Aird an Runair, North Uist in the late morning. A couple of Red-throated Divers and a Great Northern Diver passed and very much further out two flocks of ducks (at least 40 in all) that I was unable to identify. Little Stints were down to two and three Ruff were in the stubble on the headland.
Little Stint resting. Not a new arrival - one of the pair that has summered on the Reserve.