A little more sunshine than rain today. Winds moderately breezy from a mainly southerly/south-westerly direction with mild conditions.
The two main bits of bird news come from the two ends of the island and concern two different lots of geese. Mary R. found us our first, quite early arrival of wintering Barnacle Geese this morning with a group of 13 on Claddach Loch. Later this afternoon Clive McK. saw the first group of migrant Pink-footed Geese - 30 flying up Loch Gruinart.
Val P. and I took a look from the RSPB Gruinart hides at high tide this afternoon where there is now a good build up of water from the North Hide attracting ever-increasing numbers of wildfowl with 350+ Teal and a few Wigeon, Pintail and Shoveler too.
Back at Bruichladdich this evening there was a noticeable presence of terns with 12 Arctic and 3-4 Sandwich Terns working their way south down Loch Indaal, fishing as they went. With them were 4-5 immature Kittiwakes plus the usual feeding Gannets and a couple of Razorbills offshore.
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