Christine's walking & birds blog

Walking back to the car park at Achnahaird, I spotted a stoat as it slipped into a gully in the cliffs and we spent a little time looking for it; I looked up to see a sea eagle flying purposefully westwards.



Although it was a brighter day today there were still spatters of rain and an icy wind. A rock pipit was singing in display flight on the edge of the cliffs, and two razorbills, two great northern divers, and a pair of mergansers were in the bay. At the back of the beach, a lone shelduck was on the river; and four lapwings were on the machair - hopefully two pairs back on territory.  Stopping to inspect moorland pools, I saw some frogspawn and a toad in the water; and two skylarks in the heather were almost certainly a pair. Two pairs of stonechats were on fence-posts, and a male and female goldeneye were on a freshwater loch.