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17th July 2017

YvonneB

OH Bird Recorder
A walk along the beach from Askernish to Ardvule - Iceland Gull present at Kildonan still when I headed north and when I returned south later on. Pretty quiet apart from that - nowhere near as many Dunlin around here as Brian had reported in North Uist yesterday - several small groups of up to 10 birds were seen.

In Askernish itself there were still two Sedge Warblers singing.
 
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