• 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

16th July 2017

YvonneB

OH Bird Recorder
Pretty quiet day, after a trawl up the west side of South Uist and as far north as Stinky Bay in Benbecula. The only bird of note was the Iceland Gull that remains at Kildonan. There were quite a number of other gulls there too (Great Black-backed, Herring, Common and Black-headed) and a Great Skua flew over.
 

BrianR

Senior Member
Aird an Runair, North Uist: in a brisk W wind a trickle of Manx Shearwaters and Gannets were passing SW this morning and a couple of Great Skuas flew N. There were still one or two recently fledged Arctic Terns around the rocks while Dunlin numbers had risen to almost 400.

_DSC8920.JPG
 
Top