A quite pleasant dry and sunny day with light to moderate winds.
Jonathan Dolbear saw the Red Kite again on the Kilchoman side of Loch Gorm in the morning. I popped out to try and find it but it had moved on - a flushed Woodcock at Ballinaby was the consolation prize. Later Jonathan was at the Ardnave end of Loch Gruinart where he counted 5 immature White-tailed Eagles - the beginning perhaps of an almost expected winter influx to Islay of birds from other areas of Scotland to feast on geese - or is it just the local young getting together? The fact that one was on a kill may account for the concentration of birds.
Michael Boothman was also over at Ballinaby and counted a flock of 30 Redwing and Fieldfares.
I was called out to Port Charlotte in the morning to see a couple of mystery waterfowl sat on the sea just 100m offshore. We've had a few odd looking geese reported over the past few months and this pair join the top of the list of feral/hybrid weirdos, with both sporting odd bumps of feathers on top of their heads:
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