Sorry for lack of entries, blame internet issues plus the summer sightings slump. Ken Reeves brightens the blog up today with a photo of the infamous Easter Ellister velvet scoter male. For the uninitiated, this is widely believed to be the legacy of an ornamental wildfowl collection at Ellister in the 1980s, so it must be a fair old age by now. No wonder it's asleep in the photo. It generally pairs up with a common scoter female every year, gets a few people excited and then does absolutely nothing, presumably just eating Werther's Originals and moaning about how things used to be better in the old days.
Anyway, back in the real birds world, Hannah had a bonxie off of Kildalton feeding on a deal gull, and Mary had a colour ringed oystercatcher at Claddach. Details when we get them. If that doesn't keep you coming back, nothing will...
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