The only bird news from this fairly dreich Saturday comes from David Wood who found 2 Iceland Gulls at Bridgend.
There were a couple of comments regarding the odd-looking goose photo from yesterday's blog. David Livingstone who sent in the photo gained further information from David Wood who commented: "This bird was up here a few days ago, and has been around Kintra/Cornabus for the last couple of winters. It’s a cross between a greylag and white farm goose, so is at least partially feral". Malcolm Ogilvie also confirmed much the same story: "It is living with normal coloured Greylags in fields close to the Port Ellen distillery pond. I saw it when counting there in December and again this month. It could be a partial albino, but could also contain domestic goose genes"
Other than that, Mark Shields saw a Ruby Tiger Moth caterpillar crossing the road at Gruinart and wondered if caterpillars of this species in January is a sign of the impending apocalypse or not, noting that "there’s certainly a lot of things starting to grow in my garden that wouldn’t usually in January"
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