Despite hearing the call of a corncrake on many occasions during my time in the Outer Hebrides, I never saw one. This is the closest I got – it can only have been a few yards away from the car, but still no cigar.
Place: Scurrival Point, Barra, Outer Hebrides
Date: 21 June 2019.
[Crex crex, Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Corn crake]
The sound of the corncrake (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Mathias Ritschard)
Distribution and sightings of the corncrake across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 