A phone call on Monday afternoon from Loch Gruinart alerted me to a dotterel 'on the path up to the monument', as reported by a visiting bird watcher. The path from the car park is a mile long and I had all but given up hope when the bird popped up in front of me and I realized that the message meant literally 'on the path up to the monument'!
On it's way from northwest Africa to it's mountain top breeding grounds, this beautiful female looked quite at home on the Oa's cliff tops.