Wednesday 13 October

 Better late than never, here is Wednesdays updates.

RSPB Loch Guinart barnacle geese total is 14,280.

Teresa Morris has been busy over the past 2 days. Tuesdays sightings from Killinallan were 124 sanderling, 82 ringed plover, 6 lapwing, 5 curlew, 16 common gull, 3 heron. 2 snipe on the edge of the dunes.  Birds of prey as follows; WTE, golden eagle, buzzard. Several hundred geese flying down into the loch. See photo above with Oronsay in the background.

Today (Wednesday) Teresa was at Loch Gruinart an had some nice eagle sightings - 2 WTE and a golden eagle.

26 Greenland whitefront at Kinnabus on the Oa.  Thanks David.

Ardnave appears to have been the place to be.  Richard had 7 snow bunting, while John Overfield saw a nice adult pale phase Arctic Skua. Tony Lindsell counted 6 whooper swan coming in over the point, 36 chough, 2 twite, 6 ringed plover, curlew.

Peter had an exciting gull feeding frenzy off Bruichladdich yesterday: "Yesterday afternoon there was a brief "feeding frenzy" of about 75 gulls close offshore at Bruichladdich. There was another today, but much bigger involving about 300 birds. The mix comprised approximately 75 Black-headed Gulls, 120 Herring Gulls, 100 Common Gulls and 5 or so Great Black-backed Gulls. "

"There were also 55 Shags, 4 Red-throated Divers and 15 Guillemots joining in. They were all following (and catching!) shoals of small silver fish (not sand eels) about 3 inches - 80mm long. They rapidly moved up and down the coast with the movement of the fish, just a few yards offshore at times. This lasted from about 2pm for half an hour or so and eventually dispersed northwards"