Today has been a day of strong winds and heavy showers, but still birds were seen. The morning ferry was cancelled, with the evening ferry diverted to Port Askaig, as happened last night too.
4 Pink feet were along with the Barnies, White Fronts and Greylags down at Rockside. There was a Black Guillemot and a Red throated Diver on the edge of Loch Indaal, with Turnstone, Oystercatcher and Common Gull being buffeted in the wind.
In Bridgend Woods, a Dipper was seen near the Woolen Mill, and a Treecreeper along with Coal Tits and Goldcrests in the alders on the edge of the River Sorn.
A Kestrel tried to hover in the gale near to Foreland, and an immature Golden Eagle flew across the road at Saligo. A small flock of Golden Plover were feeding in a field near Saligo, while small numbers of Gannets flew South off shore. On the edge the edge of a stream there was a male Stonechat which was with Pied Wagtails and Pipits. On the shore, 2 Chough came down to turn over patches of sea weed searching for food. Many thanks for that entry from folk from the Manchester area. Our previous contributors from Cheshire were Chris and Ray Bertera, again thanks for all their sightings while they were here.
Another visitor told me of having seen 4 Swallows at Port Charlotte today, and later on, possibly the same immature Eagle, in a different location, but still in the same area.
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