National Rarity 14th March 2021

[Hawkeye]

Western Isles / Outer Hebrides bird sightings for today, 14th March 2019. Updated throughout the day

Loch Paible, North Uist
The two ***Cackling Goose*** and a Pintail were seen there today

Bornish, South Uist
10 Black-tailed Godwits were on the machair this afternoon

 

[Chris Johnson]

WeBS Count today - Ardivachar:
The most noticable influx was oystercatcher with 346. A nice showing of purple sandpipers at 300+ (I'm sure good numbers winter there every year but high tides are necessary to get them flighting). Other waders: turnstones, 131; sanderlings, c200; ringed plovers, 3. Gulls: common, 30; herring, 78; greater black-backed, 12; black-headed, 26. Cormorants, 20; shelducks, 18; mallards, 3.
North Bay:
Oystercatchers, 91; sanderlings, 5; curlews, 3; ringed plovers, 2; turnstones, 77; common gulls, 103; greater blacked-backed gulls, 10; mallards, 4; great northern diver, 1; gannet, 1.
The most obvious ommision is the bar-tailed godwits. They were probably in the ford waiting for the tide to drop.