Bird Sightings: Grey Wagtail

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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Grey Wagtail

Grey Wagtail (Gray Wagtail)

Motacilla cinerera

Gaelic: Bricein-an-uillt
Photograph © John Hamilton
Stornoway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
17th May 2008
"Gray Wagtail - on the river creed in Stornoway - Saturday 17th May 2008"

Our wagtail photographs:

Pied Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

Resident, passage visitor, breeds locally (1- 2 pairs)

First recorded nesting in the Western Isles in 1957, along the Creed river of Stornoway. Often seen along the Creed in the Castle grounds. A pair may have bred along the Amhuinnsuidhe River in Harris.

John's web site: http://landofnature.mysite.orange.co.uk/

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