Raptors seem very much in evidence at the moment and providing some exciting birdwatching. Fledged young White-tailed Eagles are wandering about with one at Craighouse, Jura on Thursday; another at Kinnabus, plus an adult over The Machrie yesterday seen by visiting birder Fiona Morton. Also yesterday - a Merlin at Craighouse, Jura, while there was a Peregrine over Bowmore High Street.
Today there were 2 Golden Eagles over Kildalton, Hen Harrier harrying Meadow Pipits over the merse at Bridgend and a White-tailed Eagle mobbed by Buzzards at Ballygrant with 2 seen later over towards Ballimartin. Visiting birder Martin Douglas had yet another White-tailed Eagle being mobbed by gulls at Ardfin on Jura. But Gary hit the jackpot with an adult White-tailed Eagle chasing Greylags on Loch Indaal towards Bridgend, then being mobbed by an Osprey. The Osprey later caught a fish, got mobbed by gulls, dropped its prey and had the White-tailed Eagle swoop in and take it off to eat perched on the old wreck in the middle of the sands there..
Waders today included 2 breeding-plumaged Black-tailed godwits at Gartmain on Loch Indaal and a Greenshank at Kinnabus..
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