Crisis time at the blog, with 66.6% of the team unavailable due to covid and Saturday night partying. Soooo, here we go. A busy day South of the Laggan - Hannah had bottlenose dolphins off Laphroaig, first reports we've had for a while. Double D had a house martin at Kinnabus, his first of the year. Mary-Ann had 2 red-throated divers off of Kildalton, and visitor Andy Rhodes had 4 twite at Upper Killeyan. Andy also had a juv WTE at Gruinart.
Jackie Wedd reports golden eagle, hen harrier, whinchat, cuckoo and lapwing and chick from the Glen road. At Sanaigmore, she had a GND and tystie in the bay.
James was out and about early at Gruinart today, with 6 singing blackcaps, 1 gropper, 4 treecreepers, 2 bullfinches and 2 whinchats. Gruinart Flats yesterday had a calling corncrake and 9 canada geese.
Scott from RAFOS sent a summary of their sightings over the last days, including bonxie at Ardnave, RTD at Claggain, WTE feeding at Gruinart and hen harriers at Loch Gorm. He says "the wind and weather has our group with a slightly lower species count that on previous Spring visits, but not by too many. As RAFOS prepare to depart, we wish those at Islay Birds and blog all the very best and look forward to our next visit!"
Back at you, Scott, many thanks for all your sightings as usual, and hope to see you all back here soon.
Many thanks to all our contributors. No photos sent in today, so one from my moth trap last week. According to Malcolm, this is only the third Islay record of cockchafer beetle, which says more about how under-recorded most things (apart from birds!) are here, I think. So get recording, birdy folk! Byeeeee
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