The Birds of Islay and Jura Published February 2026


Friday, 27 January 2017

Friday 27th January

Down at "smelly corner"  around midday, 26 Shelduck were present. Here at home, on one of the grass reseeds, I counted 104 Whitefronts and 4 Greylags, in other years they were certainly not so numerous and usually only in that field poaching around in the rushes... The other day when it was quite windy, I watched the local Choughs of around 40+ in number, tossing and turning in flight in the wind, almost like a mumeration of Starlings, quite a sight to see in its' own rights...

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