Gary had braved the elements today and managed to send some birds seen by him this morning..
"Loads of Barnacle Geese landing on the sand at Bridgend and
Gartmain this morning. There was a small brown goose amongst them that I
couldn’t I’d. Also a cross Barnie / Canada Goose.
Female Pintail at Gartmain, Golden Plover. Over 100 Brent Geese below the Gaelic college.
No sign of Hoopoe."
James had been out for a count of the geese etc. He had counted the following birds on the reserve at Gruinart..
8,635 Barnies, 2 small cackling Canada Geese, a Pink footed Goose, 2 Ruff present out from the North Hide and also a Sparrowhawk was seen nearby, He also counted 405 Greylags on Loch Gorm.
Up here at home we had 5 Linnets seen out on the Willows, a Siskin in the feeding cage, the first for along time, and then mid morning we saw a great visitor soaring about, not even flapping its wings at all, a White tailed Eagle and at the same time we saw a Golden Eagle which was flying along the top of the crag. Great to see them at the same time, boy what a size the WTE is compared to the Golden Eagle. Then around 11am a Buzzard was seen again, out along the crag
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