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Outer Hebrides / Western Isles bird sightings for today, 29th March 2018. Updated throughout the day
St. Kilda
An adult drake ***Hooded Merganser*** has been seen on Fire Pond, Hirta today
Hooded Merganser, courtesy of the Soay Sheep project, St Kilda
Stornoway, Isle of lewis
12 Iceland Gulls (at least 1 adult) and 5 juvenile Glaucous Gulls were in the harbour / Goat Island area today
Ruhba Ardvule, South Uist
Weather: Wind SSE backing ESE F 1-2, initially some cloud but clear, bright and sunny later. Temp 2C - 5C
A 3.5 hour seawatch this morning produced 52 Barnacle Geese (N), 66 Wooper Swans (N, flocks of 16, 15, 7 & 28), 22 Eider (10S 12N), 1 Fulmar (N), 29 Gannets (5S 24N), 51 Shag (10S 41N), 2 Cormorants (N), 1 Turnstone (N - high over the sea), 1 Black-headed Gull (N - arriving off sea from the south), 1 Guillemot (N) and 5 auk sp (2S 3N).
Also present in the area were Greylag Goose 10, Wigeon 49, Tufted Duck 4, Red-breasted Merganser 4, Great Northern Diver 6, Shag 23, Cormorant 15, Black-headed Gull 15, Common Gull 60, Lesser Black-backed Gull 1, Hooded Crow 2, Raven 2, Skylark 7, Meadow Pipit 2 and Twite 35
South Glandale, South Uist
A Great Tit was in a garden there
Eriskay
A Wheatear was at the ferry terminal this afternoon
St. Kilda
An adult drake ***Hooded Merganser*** has been seen on Fire Pond, Hirta today
Hooded Merganser, courtesy of the Soay Sheep project, St Kilda
Stornoway, Isle of lewis
12 Iceland Gulls (at least 1 adult) and 5 juvenile Glaucous Gulls were in the harbour / Goat Island area today
Ruhba Ardvule, South Uist
Weather: Wind SSE backing ESE F 1-2, initially some cloud but clear, bright and sunny later. Temp 2C - 5C
A 3.5 hour seawatch this morning produced 52 Barnacle Geese (N), 66 Wooper Swans (N, flocks of 16, 15, 7 & 28), 22 Eider (10S 12N), 1 Fulmar (N), 29 Gannets (5S 24N), 51 Shag (10S 41N), 2 Cormorants (N), 1 Turnstone (N - high over the sea), 1 Black-headed Gull (N - arriving off sea from the south), 1 Guillemot (N) and 5 auk sp (2S 3N).
Also present in the area were Greylag Goose 10, Wigeon 49, Tufted Duck 4, Red-breasted Merganser 4, Great Northern Diver 6, Shag 23, Cormorant 15, Black-headed Gull 15, Common Gull 60, Lesser Black-backed Gull 1, Hooded Crow 2, Raven 2, Skylark 7, Meadow Pipit 2 and Twite 35
South Glandale, South Uist
A Great Tit was in a garden there
Eriskay
A Wheatear was at the ferry terminal this afternoon