Another fine, sunny, dry day with just a light breeze.
Fiona McGillivray reported a Barnacle Goose yesterday evening on the sea by the Old school at Gortan. So that makes two Barnies not making it home to Greenland this summer as the other one still lingers off RSPB Gruinart’s North Hide.
Other late news from yesterday was an Osprey observed by visiting birders out on Loch Gruinart which was seen again today by Lucy from RSPB whilst walking the Moorland Trail.
Today up at Kilchoman, Margaret Brooke notes a Cuckoo calling up behind Kilchoman and a female Hen Harrier seen at Culbuie on her way to supply RSPB Gruinart with their regular Thursday fix of homemade cakes and biscuits.
I did my usual check of the two hides at Gruinart this afternoon. New in were a group of 9 Black-tailed Godwits from the North Hide where there was much activity from about 95 Dunlin and 35 Ringed Plover. Despite a low tide exposing vast acres of mud and sand across Loch Gruinart, there must be rich pickings on the floods as the water level drops to attract these birds in. Here too were Oystercatcher, Lapwing and Redshank chicks and my first sightings of Shoveler ducklings for this year. A female Bullfinch was seen along the Woodland Trail.
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