A lovely, bright and sunny day with no rain - but with winds from the north and east it was distinctly colder with a light to moderate wind causing further chill.
Louise Muir reported "a fall" of Woodcock on Jura yesterday with "lots" in the Sanaig forest this morning - I wonder how many?
Laura Edwards-White found Chough, Hen Harrier and 2 Kestrels up at Kilchoman church and crags this morning, while Robbie Brookes found a Canada Goose at Gruinart near the Killinallan turn-off plus Merlin and 2 Buzzards. He also counted 50+ Fieldfares along the Bunnahabhain road and a Greenshank at Bridgend.
I was out birding with friends at Loch Gruinart this morning and found the usual suspects - adult White-tailed Eagle, single Little Egret, 3-4 Greenshank, 20 Shelduck, 4 Black-tailed Godwits and searched hard among the Barnies for anything unusual but had no luck - though there was a very odd pale-headed, pink/orange-legged goose hanging out with the Barnies looking like some nasty hybrid! Less usual was a juv Long-tailed Duck - not common in this location. This afternoon we went to Loch Skerrols where the IW Ring-necked duck showed quite well in a choppy loch with 60 Tufted Ducks. Up at Bridgend were 1,220 Golden Plovers out on the sand flats.
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