Monday, February 02, 2015
With an afternoon free and a fresh fall of snow underfoot, I walked out along the river spit. Across Loch Broom, a white-tailed eagle was soaring over Beinn Ghobhlach (Golach).
It was a fabulous sight in the sunshine as it flew high above the loch and circled over Morefield before swooping down into the Rhidorroch Estate, where I lost it.
This seems to be a cormorant - rarer than shags here.
Also present on the beach were oystercatchers, turnstones, and ringed plovers, with about thirty wigeon on the water and a pair of goosanders further out on the sea. As I walked back to the road, a sort of 'tsyoo' call made me think of the ivory gull - but it was a reed bunting. And on the river was my first Ullapool dipper.
// posted by Christine @ 9:53 AM 
