Friday, April 26, 2019
It was a bright, mostly dry day, but much windier than I had bargained for. A pectoral sandpiper was a nice surprise in the fields behind the dunes at Achnahaird, although I wasn't certain of the ID until I got home and checked.
The salt-marsh held a large flock of ringed plovers and dunlin, five pink-footed geese, and two golden plover. My first common sandpiper of the year was on a loch-side on the drive out, and a cuckoo was heard but not seen. My eyes still feel gritty from the sand that blew into them - and the pectoral must have suffered too, as its eyes are closed in a couple of my pictures.
// posted by Christine @ 12:25 PM 
