George E. Jackson e mailed some sightings, all seen yesterday...
"This morning, driving down the road just below Foreland, a
Wheatear flew across in front of me. Another sign that early Autumn passage is
starting?
This evening at Traigh an Luig, again there were 10+
Turnstones, 6 Dunlin and an increase to about 20 Ringed Plovers."
This afternoon, David Barr dropped in for quick catch up and he told me that he had seen a Sparrowhawk take a Great spotted Woodpecker, rather a noisy event by what David told me! Not sure of where it happened, certainly not on Islay, but either close to Lochearnhead or even down near to Jedburgh
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A wheatear in August is so much more likely to be a locally bred bird than a migrant.
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