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The best wetland sites support hunting hen harrier, merlin and
peregrine and an array of breeding birds including wigeon, teal,
shoveler, golden plover, lapwing, dunlin, curlew, redshank,
greenshank and snipe.
If you are out at dusk, you may be lucky
enough to hear the elusive water rail or the rare spotted crake.
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Where
Best viewing is from the bird hide at Loch of Mey (ND274737) and
from the public road at Broubster (ND0360).
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When
The wetland sites provide excellent all year round bird-watching
opportunities.
Wintering wildfowl
Many of the lochs in Caithness are important for wintering
wildfowl, particularly geese and whooper swans. Wintering
Greenland white-fronted geese roost at Broubster Leans and the
Loch of Mey together with Icelandic greylag geese and whooper
swans. The best locality for whooper swans is the Loch of Wester
where flocks in excess of 100 birds are regular.
Divers, scoter and long-tailed duck are frequently seen during the
winter months, particularly at Dunnet and Sinclair's Bays.
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