30 April - Some excellent birds seen on the drive between Inverness and Achnashellach. 3 superb summer-plumaged Black-throated Divers (1) were on roadside lochs west of Achnasheen, together with a noisy Greenshank (3) and a couple of Common Sandpipers. 2 Slavonian Grebes (4) were on a loch near Strathpeffer, and an Osprey (2) perched by the A832 at Lochluichart. Coire Lair itself was fairly quiet for birds while walking but held a singing Ring Ouzel and a few Wheatears, and the pinewoods I found a singing Cuckoo, Crossbills, Redpolls and Siskins. In the evening, driving south, a flock of Golden Plover, and a Curlew, flew over the A9. BT Diver photo, copyright Gordon Langsbury. I took the Slav Grebe photo at the same site in 2010.
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