Notes from The Arran Naturalist

For this issue of the Voice, we have selected a piece from The Arran Naturalist, No. 9. A section on a shorebird count that took place in January 1985. The survey of Arran’s coast and birdlife was part of a larger survey of Britain’s coastline, organised by the British Trust for Ornithology. It is interesting to compare the data and the birds recorded from this winter period with today (for info on this see ArranBirding notes in Birds in November article – still numerous Ringed Plover and Eiders, but not so many Curlew).