The day started out fairly sunny and dry, but clouded over in the afternoon and began to rain, becoming quite persistent by evening with an increase in the wind from a westerly direction.
Some additional records for yesterday from Andrew Whitehouse included: 6 Sanderling, 8 Black Guillemots, 6 Great Northern Divers, 1 Redwing, 2 Stonechats at Machir Bay/Kilchoman. Up at Ardnave were 4 Wheatears, 4 Canada Geese, single Golden and White-tailed Eagles, a pair of Hen Harriers, 16 Choughs. Back at Gruinart he found 3 Little Egrets, 1 Greenshank, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 15 Whooper Swans, 4 Gadwall, 44 Pintail and single Little Grebe and Fieldfare. Another Wheatear weas at Blackrock and a count on Loch Indaal from Blackrock to Bruichladdich produced 4 Slavonian Grebes (some coming into summer plumage), 20 Great Northern Divers, two Red-throated Divers, 17 Red-breasted Mergansers, 18 Common Scoters.
Over at Kilnaughton and Carraig Fhada Wendy & John Mattingley found a dead Kestrel plus adult and immature White-tailed Eagles, with a female Hen Harrier on The Oa.
Today was the first (quite late) record of Chiffchaff, found singing at Kinnabus by Hannah Stanger. Wendy & john Mattingley confirm that the Hoopoe is still with us, and still in much the same area - about a mile north of the Gruinart RSPB car park. Marc Eden had 4 Pink-footed Geese at Ard-Chruaidh/Gartnatra where a couple of Sandwich Terns were displaying to each other. Later at Loch Skerrols he found 20 Sand Martins hawking for insects over the loch.
This evening Clive McK. was up at Bridgend Merse looking at the gull roost and found a first winter Mediterranean Gull.
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