I had just typed in my assessment of today's weather; " A real stinker of a day", when I noticed that Mary Redman had sent in an email with exactly the same phrase! Great minds think alike - and it truly was horrible weather - quite cold with strong winds and almost unrelenting quite heavy rain.
Despite that she was out at and posted sightings of a Great Black-backed Gull at Claddach with a BTO ring on and another fighting with a Raven over some carrion outside Port Ellen where she also saw a Great Northern Diver. At Octofad she noted a white-winged gull in a large mixed flock. Back near to home she also spied an Otter at Currie Sands.
Two other brave souls contributed bird notes in this wet and wild day. James How who had 2 White-tailed Eagles and a Little Egret on his home territory at Gruinart and a male Goosander and a second winter Glaucous Gull just outside Bowmore. Gary Turnbull found a Glaucous and an Iceland Gull at Gartmain - both of them juvenile/young birds.
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