Monday, August 13, 2018
Still, overcast weather brought out the midges in the Coigach area. From the car park I saw two godwits - one black-tailed, one bar-tailed - fly from rocks to the beach with oystercatchers.
I found them on the far side of the beach by the river, but people passing between the waders and me sent them over to the spit. Perhaps this is the bar-tailed godwit I saw here on Thursday; it seems to have the same insanely long bill.
Several wheatears were in the dunes.
On the machair, a raven was muttering away to itself with gusto as it picked at something in the grass. Eventually it lifted off and flew to where several other ravens and a great black-backed gull were feeding on the carcass of a sheep.
A pair of red-throated divers and their chick were off Badentarbat beach; and several juvenile black guillemots were fishing fairly close in.
// posted by Christine @ 11:47 AM 
