The weather for the last couple of days has been a bit kinder, although initially we had the edge of the rain that caused flooding in the South west of Scotland.
Our friends from Cheshire were really impressed on Friday, as they had 4 species of Geese all in the same field, namely Barnacle, Pinkfoot, Whitefront and Greylag, they also saw a Whitefront with a collar on, possibly the same one that John had seen earlier on in the week, but due to the buffeting effect of the wind it was hard to read the collar. Later on Loch Indaal they had Brent Geese, as well as a few Whooper Swans Yesterday, off Bruichladdich 2 Red troated Divers and 9 Common Scoter were seen. Today, they had a female Hen Harrier over the "Minister's Field", and along with the Barnies and Whitefronts, they had a further 4 Pink footed Geese and a Canada Goose. Over at Gruinart, 7 Brent Geese, 16 Golden Plover were spotted, on Loch Skerrols 3 Little Grebe along with 3 female Tufted Duck, On Loch Indaal itself 5 Whooper Swans, 2 Brent Geese and 160 Scaup. On the way home on Loch Gorm 126 Tufted Duck were counted. Many thanks folks for that.
Malcolm yesterday had a couple of Arctic Terns down at Bruichladdich, and also down on the shore there were some Purple Sandpiper as well as Turnstone. There are still a few Swallows at Port Charlotte, although having said that there were some late birds at Port Ellen last year in November!
Back here at home, recently I have been seeing a Grey wagtail quite often, infact the other day there were 2 birds to be seen.
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