A very pleasant day of sunshine and warmth when out of a cool NE breeze.
Late news in from yesterday: Dan Brown took advantrage of fklat calm seas on Loch Indaal to count divers, finding 41 Great Northrn and 26 Red-throated along with 3 flocks of Common Scoter totalling an impressive c. 150 birds. He also noted a total of 10 Hen Harriers seen plus further cuckoo at Gruinart and Grasshopper Warbler at Coullabus.
Dan had our first Whitethroat of the year singing at Port Wemyss in the morning and saw an Osprey fishing at Killinallan this afternoon. The photo below shows it with a large fish it had caught. It also shows it wearing a blue colour-ring. The bird is a male ringed on 1st July 2017 as a chick on the Glaslyn estuary Gwynedd, N. Wales - a very interesting and unusual movement.
Other notes from today come from Mary-Ann Featherstone at Kildalton where she had her first cuckoo of the year. Here at Gruinart were the usual 2 Little Egrets, assorted White-tailed Eagles, a further diminished flock of Barnacle Geese still with the Brent Goose and 3 hybrids attached plus 3 White-fronts at the S. Hide. At the N. hide the groups of Mallard ducklings were being picked off by a passing Greater Black-backed Gull.
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