Christine's walking & birds blog

One turnstone was present, and a great skua was sitting out on the water. Three shelduck were my first ever at Ardmair; they are near the bottom of the picture, almost lost against the cliffs of Loch Kanaird, below the great snow-chequered wall of Ben Mor Coigach.


Three wheatears were on the beach with pied wagtails, meadow pipits, and twite. Two paler birds gave me another Ardmair first; down south, of course, I would often see linnets and long for twite - but now, being used to twite, it was quite nice to see a pair of linnets.