Saturday 6 November 2021

Saturday 6th November

Some late news from yesterday with James How’s WEBS count from Gruinart Floods: Mallard 43, Wigeon 229, Shoveler 34, Teal 934, Pintail 67, Mute Swan 2, Whooper Swan 1, Little Grebe 1, Black-tailed Godwit 6, Curlew 3, Snipe 2, Jack Snipe 2, Lapwing 201, Golden Plover 2060.

A very cloudy, stormy day today with constant often very strong winds from the west accompanied by a lot of rain for much of the time. Birding was understandably, much reduced. Dan Brown, who had contributed so many great sightings to the blog this week, departed today, his final notes being of a total of 5 immature White-tailed Eagles over Cnoc donn Mor behind Loch Skerrols this morning, plus a great photo of his final WTE of the trip seen as he went for the ferry (see below). All the remaining blog entries were made from safely inside and away from the nasty weather and revolved around how many geese (Barnacle and Greylag) the ever-increasing population of White-tailed Eagles might eat in a year.

Phil Hyde braved the elements and noted 2 Little Egrets and a White-tailed Eagle at the north end of Loch Indaal and later saw a couple of adult male Common Scoter, a Black Guillemot and Black-throated Diver off Bruichladdich Pier.



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