Apologies for the delay in posting the Friday blog - but "better late than never":
David Livingstone had photographed this goose with White-fronts near
Port Ellen on 20th. It looks like a partially albino Greylag to me –
but do let us know your thoughts….
Yesterday Mark Shields reported “multiple White-tailed and Golden Eagles around
Gruinart all day” Very timely appearances as a film crew are back
at Gruinart shooting more eagle footage for an upcoming nature documentary.
He also noted on Ardnave Loch – 10 Whooper Swan, 2 Little Grebe, 7 Goldeneye, 6 Grey Heron, 3 Teal and 11 Mallard, while on the Loch Gruinart Floods there were 675 Teal, 226 Wigeon, 96 Pintail, 24 Shoveler, 33 Lapwing, 2 Heron and a Little Grebe.
Those figures are separate to the official WEBS count carried out over Loch Gruinart that produced 3 Grey Heron, 125 Shelduck, 132 Wigeon, 19 Mallard, 13 Red-breasted Merganser, 179 Oystercatcher, 336 Lapwing, 26 Knot, 247 Dunlin, 269 Bar-tailed Godwit, 122 Curlew 45 Redshank, 49 Turnstone, 255 Common Gull, 55 Herring Gull, 4 Great Black-backed Gull, 5 Black-tailed Godwits and 1 Little Egret.
Elsewhere, David Dinsley found a bright male
Yellowhammer below Lower Cragabus on The Oa.
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