A cold, blustery, cloudy and, towards the evening, a rainy day.
Despite some fairly unpleasant weather all of our visiting birders were active. The Red-breasted Goose was seen by Steve Percival in fields near Gruinart House where it remained long enough for Steve Williams to find it. John Matthews was at Bowmore harbour this morning finding a Slavonian Grebe, Red-throated Diver, Goldeneye, Eider, Rock Pipit and Greenshank. Later he found a female Hen Harrier at Loch Gorm, White-tailed Eagle at Gortan, and then at Finlaggan in the afternoon 2 pairs of Crossbills, a Woodcock, Buzzard, Golden and White-tailed Eagle and Goldcrest with another Hen Harrier on the high Road.
Steve Williams had another Hen Harrier near The Machrie and was up at Gruinart in the afternoon finding a further White-tailed Eagle, 250 Fieldfares and a Barn Owl between Bridgend and Bowmore. Mark Whitcombe upped the White-tailed Eagle tally to 3 immatures in the Gruinart area.
Our resident birders also chipped in with Shona Isla noting 2 Barn Owls at the woods near Laphroaig. Ed Burrell recording Crossbills coming to drink at Cornabus from the plantation forestry over the past few days, with 3 seen this morning and David Dinsley scoring the Cackling Goose, still at Kinnabus with the Barnacle Geese - photo below............
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