Thursday, August 24, 2017
A year ago today, there was a knot at Achnahaird. Today, there was a knot at Achnahaird.
We had driven out for a fairly high tide at 9.30 this morning, hoping that some migrant waders might have touched down; there was also a black-tailed godwit.
A flock of dunlin, sanderling, and ringed plover - which had been dozing on the sand - gave a nice display of fast low-flying when people started to appear on the beach. They eventually went down on the machair and the pools with several curlews and a dozen redshanks. Six red-throated divers were out in the bay, while three black-throated were seen on a loch. Bonxie bathing was underway in Loch Vatachan, where four great skuas were splashing about in the very still water.
// posted by Christine @ 8:00 AM 
