... on a drizzly, calm, midge infested walk around the headland at Mellon Udrigal a lone dark bird floated on the sea ... being beyond binocular range, the camera revealed it to be a Great Skua, the only one of the trip ...
... as the weather cleared a Twite perched nicely on a lichen-rich rock ...
... and an attractive juvenile Wheatear foraged on the turf ...
... a few Common Terns offshore ...
... along with some Arctic Terns showing clear white upperwing and neat trailing edge to the underside of the primaries ...
... an Arctic Tern leads a Common Tern ...
... and the ubiquitous alarming of Common Sandpipers with one perching attractively ...
... and a Ringed Plover showed equally well ...
... the prey selection of this Willow Warbler was giving it some difficulties ...
... and some very distant divers required the camera to reveal their identity as Black-throated ...
... more Common Terns were rather more obliging ...
... as were these Black-throated Divers ...
... a Stonechat posed in typical fashion ...
... and well up a remote glen a guard bird called to confirm breeding Greenshank ...
... some Female type Goosanders hauled up on the rivermouth at Ullapool ...
... and out to the west a juvenile Cormorant was clearly a carbo from its gular angle ...
... and some more Black-throated Divers showed even better in the bay ...
... and a lone Black Guillemot ...
... the first for Britain Western Reef Heron timed its visit to the bay near the Great Orme perfectly in N Wales ...
... Scotland was suddenly back on the itinerary with Britain's second-only Long-tailed Shrike in Fife ...
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