I've mentioned before that Eoligarry jetty on the Sound of Fuideigh is our favourite place on Barra, we always seem to see something good here, and today just proved the point once again, with the highlight being at least four bottlenose dolphins. There was a lot of seabird activity in the Sound so presumably there was a shoal of fish, and the dolphins showed well with lots of leaps and tail slapping.
Last Wednesday we found an adult non-breeding plumage black tern in the Sound which was only the second ever for Barra and
the first for 14 years. Amazingly a few days later the third for Barra was
found at the same location when a juvenile joined the adult for a day. The
adult seems to have disappeared now but the juvenile is still around and we
had good views of it today as it flew back and forth.
Unlike this juvenile, the adult had dark primaries which contrasted with the
paler grey in the rest of the upperwing. The adult was an altogether darker
looking bird.
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