Tuesday, March 28, 2017
It might have been a beautiful day had it not been for a strong, wintry wind from the east. The salt-marsh at Achnahaird held at least twenty lapwings and three golden plovers. Walking across the cliffs, I found about twenty skylarks creeping over the short turf, with smaller numbers of meadow pipits.
Across the headland were my first wheatears of the year; two males were at Old Dornie, this one feeding near a bunch of twite.
And a male and female were at Badentarbat.
Add in over 100 barnacle geese at Achiltibuie, a small flock of redwings, a solitary shelduck on the salt-marsh, a pair of whooper swans on Loch Raa, several bright stonechats, and a female goldeneye on Loch a' Mheallain - and it wasn't a bad day's birding.
// posted by Christine @ 12:28 PM 
