Flying Things !
Sea Eagles are nesting locally - don't worry you can't miss them if you see them. They are like flying barn doors!
Snowy Owl on the Crowlista road - January 2010
Sat and stared at a car full of excited Wades! 'Am I bovvered?' Clearly not very...
8 days of unbroken blue skies - May 2007 Our house is far right. Only problem was I took the photo on the way to work.......
We have more birdlife in Uig than you can shake a stick at; though obviously if you are interested in seeing any of it, you don’t want to go round shaking sticks at them!
There are several pairs of Golden Eagles and Sea Eagles in the area and this is also one of the last sanctuaries of the corncrake. This rare and secretive bird has the endearing habit of ‘crake-ing’ most of the day and all of the night during the mating season! Hopefully not directly outside your bedroom window!
Uig Sands is a tidal estuary, so herons, shellducks, redshanks, lapwings and ringed plovers are all seen in the locality. Gannets and arctic terns are both frequenters of the local coastline; whilst in the hills, merlin and golden plovers both nest.
This is just a taste of the incredible diversity of birdlife you can expect to see – not forgetting the dippers, goldcrests and the subspecies of wren peculiar to the islands!
Conversations you don’t want to have on arrival in Uig - “ You did pack the binoculars, didn’t you dear?”
Corncrake on our doorstep!
In May 2010, we heard a noise outside the kitchen window. Young Alex, using the wisdom of youth said "That corncrake sounds so loud it could be on our back step!" Young Megan, who had been out feeding the chickens came in to confirm that there indeed was a corncrake actually standing on our back step!
It then ran around the undergrowth that passes for our garden - it is one of Britain's rarest birds and it decides to sit on our back step!
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On my daily commute into Stornoway - a frozen loch in the ealy morning. Taken in July......sorry, only kiddding, February 2009!
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