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Description
Frenchman's Rocks is a useful seawatch point in late summer and early autumn, best when a SW or NW wind is blowing. Best views are from the hill next to Wavegen Power Station, called Rubha na Faing on the Ordnance Survey map. There is a car park at Claddach near Currie Sands beach.
Birds to see are Greater Scaup, Common Scoter, Great Northern Diver, Black-throated Diver, Red-throated Diver, Sooty Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Leach's Storm Petrel, Great Skua, Pomarine Skua, Arctic Skua, Arctic Tern, Sabine's Gull, Kittiwake, Bar-tailed Godwit, Rock Pipit, Ruddy Turnstone and Purple Sandpiper.
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Access
Ferry to Islay from Kinnacraig (delays possible) or by air from Glasgow. The site is at the far end of Rhinns of Islay peninsula. Click on the P in the map to get directions.