TIREE is best known among bird-watchers for its rare corncrakes, but record-breaking numbers of barnacle geese are now spending the winter months there.
The Royal Society For The Protection of Birds says 4567 of the geese migrated to the island from Greenland this year, according to its latest count.
The charity's officer on Tiree, John Bowler said: "There are count records back to the 1970s, and less complete records back to the 1950s, and this is the highest number counted that I know of since the records began.
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