Birds to see At Loch Of Mey .

Theres a staggering variety of birds to see at the Loch Of Mey;

Little Grebe,  Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Black Tern, White winged Black Tern
Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Cuckoo, short Eared Owl, Swift
Skylark, Sand Martin, House Martin, Meadow Pipit,Rock Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Wren, Dunnock,
Robin, Redstart, Whinchat, Stonechat, Wheatear, Blackbird, Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Redwing,Grasshopper Warbler.
Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow/Hoodie Raven Starling, House sparrow, Chaffinch,
Brambling, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Linnet, Twite, Snow bunting Yellowhammer, Reed bunting.

Great Crested Grebe Slavonian Grebe Red Throated Diver Fulmar Cormorant Heron Mute Swan
Whooper Swan Pink-Footed Goose Greylag Goose Canada Goose Barnacle Goose Shelduck Wigeon
Gadwall Garganey Teal Mallard Pintail Shoveller Pochard Tufted Ducj Scaup Long Tailed Duck Common Scoter
Goldeneye Smew Red Breasted Merganser Gooseander Hen Harrier March Harrier Sparrowhawk Buzzard

Osprey Kestrel Pergrine Red Grouse Pheasant Water Rail Corncrake Moorhen Coot Collared Pratincole
Oyster Catcher Ringed Plover Grey Plover Lapwing Knot Little Stint Temmincks Stint Curlew Sandpiper
Dunlin Ruff Snipe Blacktailed Godwit Whimbrel Curlew Spotted Redshank Greenshank Green Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Turnstone Wilson's Phalarope Arctic Skua Black Headed Gull Common Gull Lesser Black Backed Gull Herring Gull Great Black Backed Gull Kittiwake Sandwich Tern

In Winter the Loch of Mey provides sheltered undisturbed roosting sites for two separate flocks of Greenland White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons flavirostris. As such, constitutes as one of the two most important roost sites for this goose population in northern Scotland. Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus use all components of this site too.[Up to 60 with cygnets were seen this year 2006] The geese and swans feed in surrounding areas of agricultural land and other wetlands outside the SPA, as well as within the SPA.

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