The Coullabus crowd had gone over on the ferry to Colonsay on Saturday. Top bird was hearing a Corncrake calling away close to the car park up at Kiloran Bay. At the far end of the beach, there was a well decomposed carcase of a whale, on which there was a Hooded Crow. 6 Chough were over the dunes with some Kittiwakes, a single Razorbill with the gulls out on the water there. From the ferry going up to Colonsay, they had a distant sighting of 6 Cory's Shearwater and then at Scascaig while waiting on the ferry to return back to Islay, they had a Great Skua. On Sunday, they had a possible sighting of a Great Grey Shrike being seen of by some Wheatear while up at Ardnave. In the drizzly conditions in the afternoon, at Gruinart, they heard Snipe drumming with Reed bunting seen there as well. They also saw a Heron being mobbed by Redshank and Lapwing. Up at Finlaggan, on Monday they had a Sedge Warbler and a male Reed Bunting. A walk through from Balulive to Bunnahabhain produced 2 male Hen Harrier and also 2 Buzzards. Yesterday, the Mallard way birder had a male Hen Harrier fly across the road about 15 metres away, down towards the old lime kiln below Foreland. Returning home in the evening, he had the Curlew on the same gate post as before, defending its' territory and wondered if it was the same bird...
Lesley was in touch to say that she has been having up to 12 Siskins on her feeders, and said that there were some family groups present within their numbers.
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