Starting off todays records of a handsome hawfinch below Martin's bird feeders. A lovely from-the-kitchen-window spot!
Elsewhere on the island, Peter was out again on the hunt for cranes: " I did another circuit of loch Gorm today in a futile search for Cranes! The Tufted ducks were easier to count today and produced 32 birds. Also on the Loch were 6 Common Scoter. The fields round at Ballinaby still hold all those Ringed Plovers. They've been there for weeks now, presumably finding plenty of food without going out to Gruinart or Indaal? There were 97 today, all spooked by a passing Peregrine. A pair of Redshank are also there with a couple of chicks."
Laura was watching an adult WTE being mobbed by a buzzard near Loch Skerrols.
A late entry from Andy Robinson of a calling corncrake near the hide at Loch Gruinart.
From my own neck of the woods - a pair of common sandpiper on Currie Sands, a pair of chough over Ellister Loch, and a redshank over the house at Claddach.
Thanks to all for your sightings,
Mary
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