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Hawkeye

Eyes and Ears Everywhere
Outer Hebrides / Western Isles bird sightings for today, 5th September 2018. Updated throughout the day

Howmore, South Uist
An immature Glaucous Gull was seen on the beach feeding on a whale carcus, 0.5 miles north of the Howmore River mouth

Bolnabodach, Isle of Barra
A Short-eared Owl was seen there this evening

Ruhba Ardvule, South Uist
Counting period: 06:55 - 09:40
Weather: Wind SSW F3-4, 8/8 cloud, temp 13.5C.

A near 4 hour seawatch this morning produced 5 Red-breasted Mergansers (S), 4 Red-throated Divers (S), 1 Great Northern Diver (S), 10 Fulmars (9S 1N), 30 Manx Shearwaters (S), 317 Gannets (315S 2N), 11 Shag (2S 9N), 1 Cormorant (S), 6 Sanderling (S), 1 Purple Sandpiper (S), 1 Kittiwake (S), 2 Great Skuas (1S 1N), 2 Guillemots (S), 4 Razorbills (S), 3 Black Guillemots (S), 2 auk sp (S) and 38 Meadow Pipits (S - half arriving off the sea).
Also present in the area were Greylag Goose 24, Mute Swan 1, Hen Harrier 1, Common Buzzard 1, Bar-tailed Godwit 1, Snipe 1, Great Black-backed Gull 16 [feeding on dead Cuvier's Whale], Pied Wagtail 2, Rock Pipit 1

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Glaucous Gull (C) and courtesy of Martin Gillingham
 
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BrianR

Senior Member
Wet again for my second consecutive visit to Traigh Leathann, North Uist. The pale-headed adult White-tailed Eagle was sat on the saltings and flew off towards Kirkibost Island so I was not expecting much but three Buff-breasted Sandpipers now present (following two on 3rd).
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Another visit in the afternoon when sunny and the number had risen to four (a minimum of five were present last year on Baleshare between 9th and 29th September).
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Bruce

Senior Member
A Yellow Wagtail flew south over Brevig at 4pm today, otherwise there's precious little in the way of migrant passerines on Barra at present apart from a handful of Blackcaps and Willow Warblers.
 

MisterT

Always Birding
94 Black-tailed Godwits were on the cut fields at Bornish and another 140+ were at Ormaclete where there was also leucistic Common Gull

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Hawkeye

Eyes and Ears Everywhere
News from Tristan, Isle of Lewis

A flock of 60 Goldfinches was at Steinish this evening, also 18 Black-tailed Godwits there.

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