Bird Sightings : Hebrides : January 2007

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This table is Hebrides Bird Sightings period January 2007

Tue 30th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Stornoway Harbour - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Tue 30th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Stornoway + Loch Barvas + Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides
Mon 29th January, 2007	American Wigeon	Loch Bee - Benbecula - North Uist
Mon 29th January, 2007	Lesser Scaup	Loch Coot - Benbecula - North Uist	Drake
Mon 29th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Arnol - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Mon 29th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Stornoway Harbour + Loch Barvas + Shawbost -to Ness Area - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides	About 20 reports
Sun 28th January, 2007	Long-tailed Ducks	Stinky Bay - Benbecula - Outer Hebrides	Debbie sent photographs: female long-tailed duck male long-tailed duck	Debbie B
Sun 28th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides
Sat 27th January, 2007	Sparrowhawk	Garrabost - Point - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	I have heard it for a while...	Andy L
Sat 27th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Arnol - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Sat 27th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Brue...Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides
Fri 26th January, 2006	Sparrowhawk	Sheshader - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	Redshanks too	John H
Fri 26th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides
Fri 26th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Stornoway Harbour +Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Thur 25th January, 2007	Shelduck	Loch Erisort at Sildinis - Outer Hebrides		John H
Thur 25th January, 2007	Little Grebes	Loch Chromor - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides		John H
Thur 25th January, 2007	Snipe	Pentland Road + Achmore - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	6 individuals flushed along the roadside, plus 3 probable jacks	Suzanne H
Wed 24th January, 2007	Lesser Scaup	Gramasdail - Benbecula - Outer Hebrides
Wed 24th January, 2007	Ring-necked Duck	Loch an Eilean - Drimsdale - South Uist - Outer Hebrides
Wed 24th January, 2007	Green-winged Teal	Steinis - Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Wed 24th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Stornoway + Arnol - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides	Stornoway Harbour
Wed 24th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Eoropie - Ness + The Braighe - Point +Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis + Gramasdail - Benbecula - Outer Hebrides	Loch Stiaphabat nature reserve
Tue 23rd January, 2006	Mute Swan	Upper Aird - Point - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides	Mute Swan briefly on Upper Aird Loch also this am	Grahame and Jackie
Tue 23rd January, 2006	Brambling	Stornoway - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides	Brambling on the feeder adjacent to the Sawmill, Castle Grounds this am	Grahame and Jackie
Tue 23rd January, 2006	Iceland Gull	Butt of Lewis - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides
Tue 23rd January, 2006	Glaucous Gull	Butt of Lewis + Stornoway + Borve - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides
Mon 22nd January, 2006	Iceland Gull	Stornoway Harbour - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	Down on the pontoon in the Marina at Bayhead (Pictures attached)	Debbie B
Mon 22nd January, 2006	Red-breasted Merganser	Stornoway Harbour - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	(pictures attached)	Debbie B
Mon 22nd January, 2006	Sparrowhawk	Upper Aird - Point - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides		Grahame and Jackie
Sun 21st January, 2006	Lochcarnan South Uist Sparrowhawk 1 male 1 female Hen Harrier 1 male 1 female Lochbee South Uist Whooper Swan 2 Scaup 4 male 7 female Goldeneye 2 male MOD Range Beach South Uist Iceland Gull 1 adult (photo attached) Stinky Bay Benbecula Merlin 1 male Purple Sandpiper 17 Long Tailed Duck 5 male 3 female			Terry F
Sun 21st January, 2006	Merlin	Croir - Bernera - Outer Hebrides	Chased by a raven, both ducking and diving, merlin skimming the land	Sunny
Sun 21st January, 2006	Iceland Gull	Butt of Lewis + Stornoway Harbour + Loch Erisort - Isle of Lewis + Tarbert - Isle of Harris - Outer Hebrides
Sun 21st January, 2006	Lesser Scaup	Loch Fada - Benbecula + Baleshare - North Uist	Drake
Sat 20th January, 2006	Dipper	Carishader - Isle of lewis - Outer Hebrides		Kim P
Sat 20th January, 2006	Glaucous Gull	Northton - Isle of Harris - Outer Hebrides
fri 19th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
fri 19th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	In the harbour
thu 18th January, 2006	Greenfinch	Gisla - Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	Yesterday the first two in months, today eight	Kim P
thu 18th January, 2006	Ring-necked Duck	Loch an Eilean -Drimsdale - South Uist
thu 18th January, 2006	Lesser Scaup	Loch Coot - Benbecula	Drake
Wed 17th January, 2006	Glaucous Gull	Shader - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Wed 17th January, 2006	Iceland Gull	Butt of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Wed 17th January, 2006	Greenfinch	Gisla - Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	2 feeding on seed Rare in this area	Kim P
Tue 16th January, 2007	Goldfinch	Upper Aird - Point - Outer Hebrides	2 on our peanut feeder this am in our front garden	Grahame & Jackie
Tue 16th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Gramsdail + Creagorry - Benebcula - Outer Hebrides	2
Tue 16th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	West Gerenish + Ardvule Point + South Uist + Hosta - North Uist - Outer Hebrides	3
Tue 16th January, 2007	Lesser Scaup	Loch Sanndaraigh - Bayhead - North Uist - Outer Hebrides	Drake
Tue 16th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	in the harbour
Mon 15th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	5 - adults and immature - in the harbour
Sun 14th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Sun 14th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Sun 14th January, 2007	Jack Snipe	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Sun 14th January, 2007	Goosander	Loch Barvas - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
Sun 14th January, 2007	Ring-necked Duck	Loch an Eilean - Drimsdale - South Uist - Outer Hebrides
Sun 14th January, 2007	Lesser Scaup	Loch Sanndaraigh - Bayhead - North Uist	Drake
Sat 13th January, 2007	Sparrowhawk	Kirkibost - Bernera - Outer Hebrides	Sparrowhawk (possibly male Merlin - much too quick to see properly) hunting the small birds -greenfinches, sparrows , robin, dunnock)	Sunny S
Sat 13th January, 2007	Snowy Owl	Brue - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	At the end of Brue look West across the moor from the last house
thur 11th Jan, 2007	Greenfinches	Sheshader - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	Our record of 21 today	John H
thur 11th Jan, 2007	Iceland Gull	Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	In the harbour
thur 11th Jan, 2007	Snowy Owl	Brue - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	At the end of Brue look West across the moor from the last house
wed 10th January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Arnol + Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides		John W
wed 10th January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Siadar - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides
wed 10th January, 2007	Lesser Scaup	Loch Sanndaraigh - Bayhead - North Uist	Drake
wed 10th January, 2007	Snowy Owl	Brue - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	At the end of Brue look West across the moor from the last house
tue 9th January, 2007	Merlin	Druim nan Curracag - Callanish - Isle of Lewis	A merlin was on the fence right outside my living room window	Ela S
mon 8th January, 2007	Snowy Owl	St Kilda - Outer Hebrides	St.Kilda Duty Manager on St.Kilda phoned me today and told me that they had an adult female Snowy Owl out there this morning.	Dave C Tim
mon 8th January, 2007	Barnacle Geese	Ness - Lewis - Outer Hebrides	There were 7 Barnacle geese at the Butt of Lewis today	Julie S
Sun 7th January, 2007	Greenfinches	Sheshader - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	up to 16 Greenfinches each day	John H
Friday 5th January, 2007	Merlin	Croir - Bernera - Outer Hebrides	Incredible screeching coming from under the neighbour's caravan - out flew a merlin - no sign of the hunted	Suzanne H
Friday 5th January, 2007	Twites	Croir - Bernera - Outer Hebrides	Two	Suzanne H
Friday 5th January, 2007	Snipe	Bernera - Outer Hebrides	Norse Mill footpath	Suzanne H
Thur 4th January, 2007	Snow Buntings	Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	There was a flock of Snow Buntings at Sollas this morning (in flooded fields at end of road opposite Co-op). At least 50 birds	Peter F
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Reed Bunting	Drimsdale - South Uist	Female	Debbie B
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Fulmars	Mangersta - Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	Seem to be paired up - sitting on rocks together... Is this unusual this early?	Sunny and Susan
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Whooper swans	Ardroil - Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	Small loch beside road 1 adult	Sunny and Susan
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Goldeneye	Mangersta - Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides	3 male	Sunny and Susan
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Lesser Scaup	Loch Sanndaraigh - Bayhead - North Uist	Drake
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Glaucous Gull	Balranald - North Uist - Outer Hebrides
Tue 2nd January, 2007	Iceland Gull	Penerine - South Uist + Gramsdail - Benbecula - Outer Hebrides
Mon 1st January, 2007	Ring-necked Duck	Loch an Eilean - Drimsdale - South Uist - Outer Hebrides
Mon 1st January, 2007	Snowy Owl	Brue - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides

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