North Uist, Outer Hebrides Trip May 2025 (part 1)

I have just returned from two weeks staying on North Uist, Outer Hebrides with my wife Kerry. Having been there quite a few times now I knew what I could expect in the way of birds and wildlife, and I wasn't disappointed. One thing we didn't expect was two weeks of sunshine.

This post is about the ferry journey from Uig, Skye to Lochmaddy, North Uist. It takes an hour and three quarters and always worth being on the deck to look out for seabirds and cetaceans. It was fairly quiet on this occasion. The highlights being a pod of Common Dolphins, several Great Northern Divers and a pair of White-tailed Eagles greeting us on the distant hill as we reached Lochmaddy. 

Common Gull

                     

Common Dolphin

                                                                                                                                                       

Common Dolphin

                                                              

Razorbills and Guillemots

                                                               

White-tailed Eagles

 

Chaffinches

 A few images of Chaffinches taken recently. Eighty four added to my main website:

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Kittiwakes

Last summer I spent a week in Scotland photographing seabirds. Puffins, Guillemots and Razorbills were the main subjects and I will be posting images of those species soon, but first I have processed the Kittiwake images and have added 44 new ones of them to my website. Here are a few of them.

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Rollers in Bulgaria

A few of the Roller images that I have recently added to my website. These were taken in Bulgaria a few years ago. Lovely birds that are full of character.

Hawfinches

It has been sometime since I updated my blog, for various reason. I have still been very busy taking photographs though which has added to the ever increasing backlog of images. I'll start posting here regularly again as I try and catch up a little.

This post is of the Hawfinches I photographed back in 2018 when I visited Bulgaria. I only really looked at them properly this week and was pleasantly suprised at how many good images I had. Consequently I have added 78 of them to my website. Here's a few of them.

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Pied Flycatchers

 I have just added 20 shots of these to my website. These were taken last year and hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will have a good number of new ones to add, along with Redstart and Wood Warbler. It has been quite a few years since I did these woodland species properly, so fingers crossed.

Redwing

It's always nice to photograph the winter Thrushes we get in the UK. Both Redwings and Fieldfares are lovely birds. Here's a few shots from last week of the Redwings.