Tag Archives: birds

2003.43.1

Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLeod, Cornaigbeg, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 1/3/2003.

Hugh MacLeod (Eòghann Charrachan) of Cornaigbeg talks to Maggie Campbell about predicting the weather from the direction of the wind, the moon, stars, tides and rainbows, the behaviour of birds, the view of the islands, how these predictions regulated the crofting year in his younger days and how the weather has changed since then. Tha Eòghann Mhic Leòid a Cornaig Bheag a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul mu chomharradh na side a rèir na gaoithe, a’ gealach, na rionnagan, an tràghadh ’s an lìonadh, na boghachan-frois, cleachdadh nan eòin, sealladh nan eileanan agus mar a bha comharradh a riaghail bliadhna croitearachd ann an laithean òige.

1998.63.1

List of 1997 bird sightings for Tiree.

List of bird sightings in Tiree during 1997 collated by Mark Williamson (librarian at Tiree High School)gftbv.

1998.66.4

Photocopied newspaper cutting about a frigate-bird found on Tiree.

Letter from the Keeper of the Natural History Dept. of the Royal Scottish Musem in Edinburgh about a frigate-bird found on Tiree.