Drizzle on Barra

A difficult day in wind and rain with very few birds about, but a male hen harrier was nice as were a couple of flocks of golden plover and other waders. 

I had a nice walk back from Eoligarry jetty to our cottage following the coast all the way, mainly over beautiful beaches many of which I'd never even seen before today and Barra airport café was perfectly placed on the route to give me a break from the elements for a bit.

Greenshank.

Bar-tailed godwits.

Common scoter at Castlebay marina.

The forecast was for drizzle so I called in at Barra airport and had some drizzle cake.

Weather charts are a thing of beauty when they look like this. Watch hurricane Imelda appear in the bottom left corner of the video after battering Florida and the Caribbean over the next couple of days. It then sweeps across the Atlantic, reaching us on Barra on Friday (we're the small white dot in the north west of the UK). Red means strong winds, the darker the red the stronger the wind. We hope they will bring us some American vagrants  but even if they don't it's a great video, unless you live in Florida or the Caribbean, in which case you have my sympathy.