It was a perfect day for eagles and they seemed to be everywhere today. Neil McMahon was treated to two Golden Eagles at the Oa, and one more south of Storacaig. Steve Percival had a White-Tailed Eagle at Coull Point; Mark and Alison Cockburn also had a White-Tailed at Ardnave Point; and I saw another one flying over the Sound of Islay.
Non-eagle sightings around Islay include Ed Burrell’s Jack
Snipe at Cornabus. Martin Armstrong had a Brambling and a female Greenfinch at
his garden in Glenegedale – the second spotted in the Islay gardens this week! The
first was a male spotted by Malcolm Ogilvie on Thursday. Mark and Alison Cockburn
had Hen Harriers (1 male, 1 female), 12 Chough, 25 Twite, and three small
Canada Geese at Ardnave. A small Canada Goose was also spotted by Steve
Percival at Loch Indaal today. Neil McMahon had a Great-Spotted Woodpecker and
fifty Siskins at Skerrols, and Brambling and Twite at the Oa. I also had about
35 Twite on the west side of Sgorr nam Faoileann, as well as a family of six Ravens,
a Kestrel, and a dramatic display of a Ringtail being mobbed by a pair of
Hoodies. All in all, a beautiful day for weather and birds!
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