Sat 29th March

Mick Durham and his friend Edmond, who are over here at present wildlife watching, kindly gave me some entries for the blog. On Friday evening, down at Machir Bay, they had 2 Wheatear. Today they had a Merlin along towards Loch Gorm, and down at the ploughed field at the Coastguard Houses, there was a flock of 150 Golden Plover. This field was where the Dotterel was seen in May 2006. Today, it has been rather wet with the ground saturated, and already we have had over 5" of rain this month, even allowing for the drier spell which we had earlier on in the month. Tonight, it is drier and the stars can be seen clearly. IKB