Monday 30 August 2021

Monday 30 August

Nice autumn-feeling chill in the air today, had to put on my long sleeves at last.  Plenty brambles ready to eat in the bushes and rowan berries are colouring up well. 

George emailed in with some sighting from yesterday: A group of around 24 diving ducks busy doing co-ordinated dives watched from the road to Kilchoman; light not great but likely scoters.  On the garden at Rockside, a wheatear.

At Claddach today the wheatear by the house was there again plus an other in the nearby fields. A flock of 15 goldfinch feeding on the thistle heads. 3 sparrowhawk on the drive up country today (one near Easter Ellister, an other at Uiskentui, the 3rd at Octofad on the way home).  Plenty swallows about at Ellister too.

Jim reported 2 adult sandwich terns at the head of Loch Indaal.  A juvenile whinchat at Sligo, plus an other 2 near the RSPB visitor centre at Loch Gruinart, with 4 ruff spotted on the loch itself.

Mark reported a later count of 5 ruff at Loch Gruinart, and noted a sparrowhawk and a white-tailed eagle in the area too.

Bird Nerds catch up tomorrow at Cornabus around 6ish.

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