Red-throated Diver

Summer plumage adult.

Common breeder and present year round

photo: Steve Duffield

Red-throated Diver

Red-throated Diver

Benbecula Oct 2006

Black-throated Diver

Summer plumage.

Breeder and resident year round although quite local in winter.

photo: John Kemp

Great Northern Diver

A winter plumaged bird off Balivanich, 2007

photo: Steve Duffield

Great Northern Diver

photo: Mark Darlaston

Great Northern Diver

Common winter visitor

numbers increase in March / April when birds gather to moult

White-billed Diver

Lewis 2006

photo: Mark Darlaston

Red-necked Grebe

Ardivachar, S Uist 21.10.06

Slavonian Grebe

juvenile, Loch Hosta, N Uist 02.12.06

Fulmar

Storm Petrel

photo: Mark Darlaston

Great White Egret

North Uist, Oct. 07.

Rare visitor but apprently increasing. This is the fourth record for the Outer Hebrides.

photo: Steve Duffield