Apologies for not updating sooner, just back from a week on North Uist with Mrs D.
The weather was brutal, the gulls were brutal and the beer was, well, quite nice really.
Returned to Dempsey Towers despite computer on car failing so we didn't know how fast we were going (answer: VERY fast - I don't need a computer to tell me my speed) or what revs the engine was running (quite a lot) only to discover my pc had crashed too.
Thanks to my good friend Nick for getting the thing rescusitated, and thanks to everyone who's been updating the blog in my absence.
Green Winged Teal at Marshside sounds good - must catch up with that asap - although Bazzo tells me there are two Green Wings there, and a text from Tropical earlier in the week informed me he'd already had a Ring Ouzel - spring can't be too far away, despite this gentle breeze and light showers (trust me, compared to the Uists, today's weather is a summer's day).
Will stick more Hebs stuff on tomorrow, meanwhile, eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the
skies...
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Oops, forgot to mention that Bazzo also had four Eider on the tide from the top of Mount Baker at Marshside yesterday....
Moi aussi with the Eiders. I had 8 at Banks yesterday morning, way out and in flight, 7 were drakes so where were the ducks?
I was helping with the March WeBS count. We got blown back off the marsh, rather that than blown into a gutter, and watched the tide scream in from the sea wall.
Not a lot else birdwise, wildfowl numbers dropping , no plovers and just a few smallish flocks of Grey Plovers and "calidrids" trying unsuccessfully to settle in the wind and dodge the waves.
Zillions of big gulls for anyone interested, pushed off the breeding areas. Mainly Herrings which is interesting given the numbers of LBB that usually breed here. A Green Sand here last week.
Ron