These weather reports are becoming very repetitive! Yes - another dry, sunny day with a light to moderate breeze from the east.
Marc Eden started the day's recording with a fine Ring Ouzel down at Sanaigmore this morning. Marc was up at Killinallan later in the day finding 20+ Snipe and a Jack Snipe, but noting a dearth of Twite compared to Linnets in places where he'd seen more Twite in previous visits.
There were numerous notes coming in of Willow Warblers dotted about the island and on Jura, with other summer migrants such as 7 Sand Martins and a Swallow at Kinnabus from David D. Mary Redman was unfortunately minus her optics when she saw what was probably an Osprey over Claddach this evening.
I ventured to the Gruinart hides this morning finding among all the regular species a single Little Egret, a total of 11 Whooper Swans. An odd Wigeon that stuck out like a sore thumb had me going for a while, thinking it might be a hybrid American x Eurasian. But on closer inspection of my photos once home, the green on the head was not a full crescentic eye-stripe, but more blotchy and broken. It looks more like one of these occasional males that has flashes of green on its head - apparently more common in Russian birds? Anyway, a cautionary tale about jumping to conclusions..............
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