Christine's walking & birds blog

On the drive out, I spotted a red-throated diver and its chick on one of the lochs, and snapped them from a passing place.

My first juvenile dunlin of the year was on the sand at Badentarbat together with at least two adults; and a flash of white on the far side of Loch Raa turned out this time to be a heron. There was activity round the nesting site of colletes bees on the low cliffs near Achnahaird beach. I've also recently seen these bees (at least, I presume they're the same species) feeding on heather near the masts at the Braes - probably on the same day (6th August) that I spotted a crossbill, again in spruce.