Little to report today - a day of mixed sunshine and stormy showers. Birding on the east (Killiinallan) side of Loch Gruinart indicated good numbers of migrant waders on the move: many hundreds of Dunlin along with plenty of Redshank, Ringed Plovers, a few Curlews with well-developed fledged young, a handful of Golden Plover, Sanderling, both godwit species and single Greenshank. A count of the masses of Greylags on the exposed flats totalled 680+.
Notes came in of Barn Owls seen recently in several widespread locations across the island including the successful pair in Ian and Margaret Brooke's owl box - all a reminder of a hopefully still healthy population of the species on Islay.
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