There is a mixture of boulder clay and other glacial deposits in the eroded valleys, and raised beach and marine deposits elsewhere, especially to the south and west which result in a machair landscape in places, inland from the sandy bays, such as Stravanan.
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The Clubs home ground is on Fivepenny Machair and boasts some of the best changing rooms and stands in the Western Isles as well as the Ness F . C . Social Club next to the pitch, a fantastic venue for fans, players and members of the community to relax in.
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These birds are mountain specialists, although red-billed choughs also use coastal sea cliffs in Ireland, Great Britain, and Brittany, feeding on adjacent short grazed grassland or machair; the small population on La Palma, one of the Canary Islands, is also coastal . in North Africa and in the Himalayas.
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The cliffs on the eastern side of this headland show the only preserved exposures of Moine metasediments west of the main outcrop of the Moine Thrust in Scotland ( as a result of thrusting and later normal-faulting ) and excellent machair examples have developed between the cliff top and the dunes, partly due to the high sea-shell content of the sands in the Durness area.
