Hello bird fans. A typical Islay winter day, wet, windy and mild and with plenty of good stuff to see in between the showers.
At Loch Gruinart, James had a barn owl still out hunting after sunrise, and later in the day 6,170 barnacles and 319 white-fronts on reserve. Gary had 2 WTE chasing geese near Finlaggan.
It was the last day of the visit for Chris Mills. He had a decent day down in the beautiful SE corner of Islay, seeing golden and white-tailed eagles, 5 yellowhammer, 3 bullfinch, 40 fieldfare, 20 redwing, 30 redpoll, a few siskin and a couple of woodcock. Up at Duich Lots he saw a peregrine perched.
Steve Lister was also leaving the island today, he and Ken, Heather, Nev and Richard finished with 2 little egrets on the shore north of Bowmore.
Huge thanks to all the above for your sightings.
The goose count figures we got from Morven at NatureScot the other day made me wonder how this November count compared to recent years...
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