Monday 19 February 2018

Monday 19th February

Rather a misty kind of a day out here on the far west of Islay, but our birders here were undeterred...

Forgot to mention last night that we had a Merlin zip through the garden , boy was it moving along rather smartly... Today we had a flock of 14 Lapwing flying around over the Machir, and then late afternoon, a Fulmar was soaring along in front of the crag. The Rochdale Birders had seen a White tailed Eagle fly from Jura  across the "Sound of Islay" and after a wee while they saw it fly back over to Jura. Later on, while they were driving along the "Glen road" they counted  205 Whitefronts in a field at Cattadale. Another returning birder to Islay, Danny saw a male Sparrowhawk sitting on a fence post over at Coull late afternoon. Mike P. had been down on Machir Bay this afternoon where he had 4 Glaucous and an Iceland Gull, good spotting Mike!! Mark had carried out the WeBS counts at Gruinart today, so here are the birds seen, 2 GND, 3 Heron, 174 Shoveler, 218 Wigeon, 37 Mallard, 3 Goldeneye, 7 R b Merganser, 3 Snipe, 207 Oystercatcher, 32 Ringed Plover, 85 Lapwing, 4 Knot, 30 Sanderling, 57 Barwits, 86 Curlew, 27 Redshank, 5 Greenshank, 45 Turnstone, 12 B h Gull and 177 Common Gull.

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