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Linda257 wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 8:54 am Oh another nice one from Oban

Thanks Linda, they were on my shopping list...

SnappyMac wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:18 am Thanks Linda, they were on my shopping list...

Hahaha...I wonder if you managed to fulfill your shopping list

Nice capture Snappy. Not one I have yet had the chance to see.

Linda257 wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 9:49 am Hahaha...I wonder if you managed to fulfill your shopping list

Same as usual, came away forgetting something...

Mr Kes wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:43 am Nice capture Snappy. Not one I have yet had the chance to see.

Thanks Mr Kes, only the second place I have ever seen them. Last time was at Portpatrick.

I think they breed in Oban harbour, using the harbour wall as a cliff face... Didn't manage to see them last time we were there

PimperneBloke wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 12:50 pm I think they breed in Oban harbour, using the harbour wall as a cliff face... Didn't manage to see them last time we were there

I think we were a bit late for them, we didn't see any in full breeding plumage.

Shag (Gulosus aristotelis) - Photo taken on an Oban Sea Tours trip.

Photo taken at: Sound of Kerrera, Oban, Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oban


Shag (Gulosus aristotelis) by SnappyMac, on Flickr

Species Information: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/shag

Am glad you ID'd them SM as a would have wrote them off as cormorant.....even though I have seen both....just laziness
Nice photo

Linda257 wrote: Thu Sep 04, 2025 7:52 am Am glad you ID'd them SM as a would have wrote them off as cormorant.....even though I have seen both....just laziness
Nice photo

Thanks Linda, my default ID is cormorant It's odd because shag outnumber cormorants in the UK.

Shag UK breeding birds 27,000 pairs & UK wintering 110,000 birds
Cormorant UK breeding birds 9,018 pairs 7 UK wintering 41,000 birds