Happy Easter holidays everyone. Islay is chock-full of migrants from the south today, though mainly the holidaying human kind, the feathered ones are still fairly thin on the ground. Lauren and Lucy from RSPB were surveying the loch at Gruinart - some of the highlights were 184 barwits, 4 canada geese, 2 little egrets, 5 white-tailed eagles, 98 dunlin and 71 sanderling.
On the floods in front of the South Hide was a drake garganey, 3 sand martins and 2 little grebes, in amongst the usual suspects. Several small groups of white-fronted geese have been moving through the last couple of days, today 24 stuck around the hides. Near Saligo this afternoon there were 2 WTE, 6 chough, a peregrine and 3 wheatears.
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