A mostly overcast, grey and rainy day with moderate southerly breezes.
Stuart Ainsworth started things this morning with a Brent goose associating with the Barnies on the fields at Gruinart. The Worcestershire & Malvern RSPB group are visiting and sent in a long list of birds seen including a Pink-footed Goose and a couple of White-tailed Eagles on Loch Indaal at Bridgend. At Gruinart they found the Green-winged Teal, a couple of Grey Plovers, and single Greenshank and Black-throated Diver, 2 more White-tailed Eagles and a Golden Eagle on the hills above. The most unusual record was an Arctic Tern (photo below) - there have been only two other November records on Islay and this is the latest. Back at Blackrock were 5 Long-tailed Ducks and 50 Brent Geese. The group took a number of good photos credited to Paul Nurden.
And these thanks to Stuart Ainsworth:
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