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I'm one of the most näively optimistic birders in the world, but yesterday took the biscuit! After work in Gairloch, I decided to check Rubha Dearg. This was based on a crofter describing to me what could only have been a Siberian Chiffchaff there whilst I was recorder...
(It's never been birded before) and the fact that Spurn had 3 Dusky Warblers the previous day and conditions looked perfect for overshoots to the west coast. An hour in and having seen 2 Chaffinch and a Great Tit I headed despondently back. Passing the croft a dog started barking
and a metallic tacking call started in the tree next to it. I knew it was a Dusky Warbler before I turned my head to see it!. It showed incredibly for a couple of minutes, I usually rattle off pics but this time i just watched and enjoyed it. It then disappeared and it took...
2.5 stress filled hours to get a photo of it! In the meantime to add to the surreal nature of the moment a Firecrest had appeared!. Recording of Firecrest here - first recording in Scotland on Xeno-Canto - https://www.xeno-canto.org/601560
And finally the view from Rubha Dearg (Red Point) with the trig point in the foreground looking towards na Beanntan Dearga (The Red Cuillin) with Beinn na Crò directly behind the trig point
