What a difference a day makes!
Visitor Ben Rackstraw either wasn’t put off by tales here of a duff sea-watch
yesterday – or just hadn't read the blog - so popped down to Frenchman's Rocks for a sea-watch
between 6.45 and 9.45 am today and, by contrast, did rather well:
Highlights were 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 2 European Storm-petrels and 7 Great Skuas along with 10 Arctic Terns and a Diver spp. against a constant passage of Manx Shearwaters - up to 20 per minute.
On Sunday 15th Ben was at Ardnave and noted 31 Chough, 1 ringtail Hen Harrier, 1 immature Peregrine around the farm/dunes near Ardnave Loch, plus an immature White-tailed Eagle sat on the skyline on the opposite shore of Loch Gruinart.
The only bird notes today are from James How who counted 20 Black-tailed Godwits on Loch Gruinart - possibly the same 20 seen on Sunday??
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