Christine's walking & birds blog

At Ardmair, most of the gulls and razorbills were way over by the fish farm, and you really need a scope for that; the little gull could easily be over there among the much reduced numbers of other gulls but I wouldn't be able to see it. However, the rosy black-headed gull was on the spit again.

A black-throated diver came fairly close in to the beach.....

.....while further out on the calm water were a great northern diver and at least three black guillemots, so there was compensation of a kind for the little gull. Back in Ullapool there was a mini feeding frenzy on the loch; but I only managed to catch one gull with a fish in its bill, and the excitement was all over in a few seconds.

At least 10 razorbills were also present.