Fairly calm conditions, but some heavy rain showers in the morning giving way to a brighter afternoon.
Bird notes today kicked off with Ed B. reporting a Brent Goose on the loch at Cornabus - an odd "inland" record for the species. Clive McK. noted a couple of small groups of Whooper Swans totalling 10 birds passed through Loch Gruinart in the morning, with a 9 Pintail arriving a little later. James H. had a Water Rail at Gruinart in the evening.
Gary T. was birding around Loch Indaal finding a "feeding frenzy" of gulls, Black and Common Guillemots, Razorbills and divers at Bruichladdich. This continued into lunch time when I watched large numbers of Black-headed Gulls successfully taking small silver fish from leaping shoals close in by the pier, while there were 40+ Common Scoter a little further off. Gary later watched one of two White-tailed Eagles take a goose at the head of the loch, plus 4 Little Egrets, 5 Greenshank and the seemingly resident Kingfisher present at the mouth of the River Sorn. Also on Loch Indaal at Carnain, Louise Muir found 20 Twite.
Elsewhere on the island, Mary R. had a lone Swallow at Port Charlotte, Mary Ann Featherstone had 20+ Coal Tits over at Kildalton and out on The Oa there were two reports of Red Grouse: David D. had 2 while gathering sheep on the reserve and Robbie & Stuart Langsbury had 6 by the boardwalk out to the American Monument where they watched a lovely Golden Eagle.
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