Another lovely sunny morning and time for Peter’s and Alfie’s walk across the grass to the beach.  Birds to be seen on the wire were a female and a male Stonechat (male with the black head).

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Plus a lovely Linnet (sex unknown).

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Alfie was a little tired after that and took to a cushion for a rest!

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After breakfast we all went down to the beach to see what we could see. Peter took some photos of a Gannet:

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and Alfie played around in the rocks:

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I was busy taking yet more photos of the sky with its scudding clouds and Peter got his own back and took one of Alfie and me.

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This is an unusual type of seaweed, rather like a delicate fan.  We think it could be called Whiteweed.  Any other ideasDorothy?

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What a gorgeous photo this makes of the distant Eriskay mainland:

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I couldn’t resist taking a photo from the cab looking through the windscreen so you can see what our view is.

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and here you can see the grass in front of us covered in primroses.

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Down at the Old Jetty we managed to park and Peter went out with the camera while I attempted a small watercolour (featured above).  I’m still struggling with the concept.

We popped into the Airport café before they shut to put yesterday’s blog online and had to have a brownie each (really moist) and a drink.  This time the owner was behind the counter and we renewed our acquaintance.  It’s lovely when you are remembered.

Blog achieved we went back to the Jetty and I finished the painting (featured image) while Peter went off with the camera.  He captured a couple of Twites (one shown here).  My favourite Hebridean bird.

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The ferry between Barra and Eriskay was in the distance.  It had been temporarily suspended for a couple of days during the high winds in the middle of the week.

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Altogether a lovely day – still a bit windy but the sun is out – which is the main thing of course.