Rain overnight, and a grey, overcast start to the day gave way to a bit of sunshine before drizzling again in the evening. Despite mainly SE winds it wasn't that warm.
Down on The Oa Ed Burrell saw a Merlin at Cornabus and later a single Black-tailed Godwit on loch Cornabus. Up at Gruinart in the afternoon, the 12 or so Black-tailed Godwits were still in front of the S. hide and later on a fine flock of 65 turned up on the flats, visible from the North Hide. All these Black-tails were in variousstages of lovely breeding plumage in contrast to the Bar-tails out on the flats where 160 were counted along with plenty of other waders - 347 Ringed Plovers, 12 Grey Plover, about 20 Dunlin, lots of Curlew and a few Knot and Sanderling. Back on the floods were 2 Little Egrets, 3 Tufted Ducks and 5 Whooper Swans as well as plenty of Sand Martins buzzing about.
At Port Ban were a couple of Sandwich Terns seen by Craig Walker.
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