Friday, 16 May 2025

Friday 16th May

 The heatwave continues...........

Martin Harris sent in the following selection of sightings: At Blackrock and the nearby beach were 16 Dunlin. At Rubha Ban there was an adult White-tailed Eagle and a pair of Shelduck with young. Up at Bunnahabhain were 3 Eider, 3 Black Guillemots and 2 Willow Warblers. Sitting for an hour at Port Mhor this morning produced, amongst other things, 11 Common Gull, 1 Great black-backed Gull, 8 Arctic Terns, 3 Stonechats, single Dunnock, Cuckoo and Sedge Warbler, a couple of Buzzards, a passing Gannet, plus Linnets, House Martins, Starlings, plus 9 Golden Plovers flying past.

David Livingston sent in a couple of classic spring photos of our breeding birds:

A female Mallard with ducklings at Kilnaughton Bay


A Lapwing chick on the road down to the Machrie Hotel & Golf Course



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