A cracking day today. The photo above of one of my favourite stretches of coastline: looking north to Lossit Bay from Frenchmans Rocks. In one of the gullies along this stretch my great-great Uncle took shelter with his skiff (fishing boat) as an over-familiar Orca had taken an interest in them. Easily bigger than their wee boat, it's not hard to believe the young lad with him scaled the cliff face like a shot as soon as they neared land, without a backward glance! My great-great Uncle waited in the gully till the Orca left, the boat too precious to abandon.
Out walking here I put up 2 snipe from the long grass and was lucky to watch 2 otter feeding. Overhead were separate small flock of twite, goldfinch, and fieldfare. At Claddach Loch I counted 7 visible lapwing on the edges.
Ribble Bird Tours were out enjoying the day reporting the American wigeon and lesser scaup are still present at Loch Skerrols, while at Loch Gorm they encountered a ring-tailed hen harrier. At Ardnave they counted 23 chough, an immature WTE over the loch at the car parking area, with another WTE over Nave Island itself.
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