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Everyone who visits Harris and Lewis wants to see a golden eagle, and outside of the breeding period, when both birds are at the nest, it is not too difficult. There were 59 breeding pairs reported on the islands in 2005 and all you really need to do is park up in hilly country, look up and wait. If it looks like an ironing board with shirt sleeves hanging off the ends floating across the sky, then it is a golden eagle. Equally magnificent is the white-tailed or sea eagle. These were originally reintroduced on the island of Rum in the Inner Hebrides in the 1970s, but quickly spread to other islands and now frequent the deserted sea lochs such as Loch Sealg in Park (ssss1). Their ability to take lambs has not made them universally welcome in the Western Isles.

One of the big attractions of bird watching in the Western Isles is the variety of migrants passing through in spring and autumn as well as offcourse vagrants that get blown in during storms. There is a small but active group of recorders on Harris and Lewis and. Visit www.thewesternisles.co.uk/birdsightings.htm to catch up with their latest sightings.