Monday 16th November

 Bob yesterday had carried out his WeBS count from Port Charlotte back round to Blackrock when he counted the following birds,

" 6 GND, 2 RTD, 7 Cormorant, a Shag, a Glaucous Gull, 3 Gbb Gulls, 110 Herring Gulls, 21 Common Gulls, 2 B h Gulls, 26 Greylags, 14 Mallard, 5 RBM, 26 Oystercatcher, 6 Ringed Plover, 37 Turnstone, a Curlew, 5 Knot and a Grey Wagtail." 

Mark and James had carried out the WeBS count over at Gruinart etc... so here are their birds 

Loch Gruinart

Oystercatcher	137
Curlew	115
Barwit	244
Herring gull	76
Common gull	55
G B B gull	8
R B merg	15
Dunlin	600
Turnstone	15
Shag	3
Greenshank	5
Heron	2
Mallard	56
B H gull	47
Redshank	77
Wigeon	243
Sanderling	159
Knot	9
Ringed plover	5
shelduck	51
Snipe	5
Great northern diver	1

Ardnave Loch

Long tailed duck	2
Goldeneye	2
Heron	3
Little grebe	1

 

Floods

Gadwall	2
Mallard	61
Little grebe	3
Wigeon	194
Teal	1028
w. swan	3
Shoveler	47
Pintail	76
Lapwing	4
Heron	1
Curlew	76
Redshank	30
Greenshank	8
Golden plover	1132