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Hawkeye

Eyes and Ears Everywhere
Western Isles / Outer Hebrides bird sightings for today, 21st July. Updated throughout the day

Hirta, St Kilda
The ***Snowy Owl*** and the Rose-coloured Starling were both seen there again today

Balranald, North Uist
Five Whimbrel and eight Black-tailed Godwits were on the reserve today

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Rose-coloured Starling (C) Craig Nisbet
 
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MisterT

Always Birding
Another 2 Storm Petrel sessions on South Uist saw 91 (24 + 67) new birds ringed plus another Leach's Petrel. We also had 2 controls within 10 minutes of each other with ring numbers only 36 apart! It turns out that both birds were ringed on 14th July 2021 at Mangerstadh, Lewis, just one hour apart from each other. Now after 7 sessions we have had 5 controls (birds ringed elsewhere - green on map) and 1 recovery (one of our birds found elsewhere - red on map)

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Bruce

Senior Member
Barra.
I found a Subalpine Warbler species at Cuithir this afternoon. It was extremely elusive, seen fleetingly 4 times in 4 hours, the longest view was about 5 seconds. It wasn't heard to call at any point. This is the same clump of trees that hosted a singing male Eastern Subalpine Warbler on 30th May. We check the site on a daily basis and haven't seen it during the intervening period. I'm struggling to believe it could be the same individual, but equally I'm struggling to believe there's been two different Subalps in the same little clump in a little under two months!
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