A reasonable day's weather on Sunday but no bird sightings sent in. Today it was Storm Floris with very strong winds, though still mostly bright and sunny after rain during the night. The worst of the storm seems to have been to our north, but there were strong westerly winds here that inspired Clive McK to try sea-watching off Frenchman's Rocks for 5 hours this morning from 11.15am. This brave and windswept venture produced some good results: 2 adult Sabine's Gulls together was the highlight along with a total of 68 Storm Petrels, a Sooty Shearwater and 13 Arctic Terns.
The Storm-petrel count is in the top 10 highest day counts recorded for Islay, and many of the other high counts were over longer periods of watching. There have only been about 50 previous Sabine's Gulls recorded.
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