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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

    New - now available as an ebook

National Rarity 1st March 2022

MisterT

MisterT

Always Birding
18 Black-tailed Godwits were in the SW corner of Loch Bee this morning with just 16 Greenland White-fronts seen on the west bank. An Iceland Gull was on the pools by LA2. 28 Barnacles were at Ardkenneth, a Little Egret was at Clachan and 4 Slavonian Grebes were offshore at Balgarva. The Lesser Scaup was on Coot Loch as was a drake Pintail.

4 Fieldfares were at Grogarry Lodge amongst Redwing, another 6 were at Drimsdale and a drake Goosander was on Loch Altabrug. The 2 adult female Lesser Scaup and the Coot were again in the northern arm of West Loch Ollay, and another Little Egret and 14 Barnacle Geese were at Corran Ormaclete. The Slavonian Grebe was still on Loch Bornish.

Whooper Swans were much in evidence with the highest count being 58 the floods on Bornish machair. Meadow Pipit were also much more commonplace.

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Iceland Gull and Linnet
 
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