Yesterday evening there was a flock of 17 common snipe on the spit at 18:45. I watched them for about 10 minutes, before 14 of them flew up very high and apparently departed to the west. It's impossible to know if these were British birds moving to the coast or freshly arrived birds from Europe heading south west for the winter, but either way a great sighting. There were still four present this morning.
One of the highlights to our trip to Barra last October was watching flocks of snipe arriving over sea from their breeding grounds in Iceland.
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