A glorious day on Barra, the best yet for weather, light wind and lots of blue
skies. Birds included my first yellow-browed warbler of the autumn, a pintail
which was a Barra tick for us, house martin, whimbrel, two white-tailed eagles
and most surreal, a golden eagle over the co-op while we were doing the
shopping! Also today two otters at Eoligarry jetty.
We were at Nask when I heard a yellow-browed warbler call quite clearly but for some reason I ignored it. Then it called
again and I asked Ray, who was looking at his phone, if he had played the call but he hadn't. Then I got
interested. It called again a couple of times from the top of a tree and then
flew to a pine tree where it stayed for a few seconds before flying off for a
final time never to be seen, or heard, again.
Pale-bellied brent goose. Many pass through Barra on their way elsewhere but I
think a few overwinter in the Sound of Barra. This bird has been around for a
while but also today we found 11 birds on Traigh Mhor which were new in.
Allasdale bay.
Castlebay.
Castlebay.
The pintail dropped in today and apparently it landed on the road at Glengarry
alongside the birder who first saw it! It then moved 100m to a small inlet at
Castleby and fed amongst the seaweed. Pintail are less than annual on Barra.
Castlebay.
Castlebay.
Eoligarry jetty beach.
Eoligarry jetty with the island of Fuideigh in the distance. Somewhere out
there is only the second ever black tern to appear on Barra.
Eoligarry jetty beach.
Scurrival beach.
Scurrival beach.
Scurrival beach.
Scurrival beach.
Scurrival beach.
Loch Tangasdail. We usually stop here because it can be a good place for
seeing ducks that otherwise would be difficult to see, and whooper swans
regularly drop in. It's also the site of the legendary Barra coot from 2022.
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