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Title: Rare Visitor To North Uist
Post by: Wildfisher on April 06, 2016, 05:52:27 PM
Nope, not a good looking woman, not even a tourist without a camper van, but a rare gyr falcon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35823756 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35823756)

Get your arse up there with your camera Andy!   :D
Title: Re: Rare Visitor To North Uist
Post by: SoldierPmr on April 06, 2016, 06:33:16 PM
Is Gyr Falcon another name for the Greenland Falcon?
Title: Re: Rare Visitor To North Uist
Post by: Wildfisher on April 06, 2016, 07:23:16 PM
It is
Title: Re: Rare Visitor To North Uist
Post by: SoldierPmr on April 06, 2016, 07:57:16 PM
I heard they were nearly wiped out by being caught and sold to the east?
Title: Re: Rare Visitor To North Uist
Post by: Suki1312 on April 07, 2016, 10:29:52 AM
Quote from: Roobarb on April 06, 2016, 07:45:34 PM
Nah that's old hat. I saw two several times three years ago and another last year that no one else saw.
The snowy owls are the ones I need to see.

Andy

Funnily enough the last one I seen was just south of Daliburgh a few years ago .