March-April 2014

6th March

 Very pale buzzard (Buteo buteo) on a stick at Skeabost.

 Female crossbill at Skeabost (Loxia curvirostra or scotica).

12th March

 Male crossbill at Skeabost.

20th March

 Male hen harrier (Circus cyaneus). 2-3 years ago I saw these relatively frequently but now they appear only very rarely.

26th March

 Cuillin gloom

31st March

The evil Blackbird (Turdus merula). I was persecuted by this bird for several weeks, pecking on the windows (you can see the marks) and depositing bird droppings all over the window ledges and my car which I had to wash several times a day. In the end I partially fooled it by moving the car a few yards away, round the corner. So it wasn't an evil genius.

10th April - Beinn an Sguirr

 Coltsfoot  (Tusilago farfara)

 Pair of white-tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) - one juvenile and one sub-adult (ringed).

 Sub-adult.

Rain falling beyond the Ascrib Islands.

 Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer)

 Cliffs of Beinn an Sguirr.

 Primrose (Primula vulgaris)

Looking eastwards from Beinn an Sguirr to the north of the Trotternish peninsula.



18th April

 Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)

 Sheeps (Ovis aries)


22nd April

 Big bird in the sky.

27th April

Flying insect thing in Uigshader.