Sunday, March 04, 2018


A grassy island with a couple of pools of melted snow in the middle of the Ullapool River, held a snipe this morning - I know because I heard and then saw it fly away (the call something like a nasal "fnch", lacking the open "e" sound of the snipe species I saw recently). Two stonechats were present, and one was wasting energy chasing a reed bunting.


Rounding the Point, I began to see stonechats again; quite a lot of grass has now been exposed by the thaw along West Shore Street, and two stonechats, a skylark, and a song thrush were making use of this to forage. The stonechat below was chased off by a house sparrow before I could get a better shot, but I kept this one anyway because of his bright colours.


An Iceland gull was in the harbour.



The quayside was teeming, with several fishing boats transferring their catch to long-distance lorries; so I didn't hang about but just noted that there was at least one other white-winger around and then walked up through the village and home.

// posted by Christine @ 7:51 AM
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