Thursday 23 December 2021

Thursday 23rd December

Profound bleakness for much of the day, before a lovely last 45 minutes of light at sunset, captured brilliantly by Phil Edwards at Saligo...


Phil was busy again today, getting a pair of gadwall at Loch Tallant along with 9 teal. I'm fairly sure the gadwall are a good December record - Malcolm, over to you!! Some of Phil's other sightings include a merlin at Ballinaby, 9 twite at Smaull, otter and GN diver at Claggain and 5 porpoise at Seal Bay. Ian Dearing had a ringtail hen harrier at Ballinaby this morning. And that was all she wrote for today - the forecast is dry for the next couple of days, so Santa can leave the roof down on his sleigh.


1 comment:

Malcolm said...

Although much commoner in summer, there have been more or less regular records of wintering Gadwall in November, December and January