A cool, cloudy drizzly sort of day. I came back to Islay today on the 6pm ferry out of Kennacraig which took an odd route sailing in very close between Gigha and its few skerries. The open sea was full of birds right the way across. Several tight groups of dozens of birds - Gannets, Greater & Lesser Black-backed, Herring Gulls, Kittiwakes, Guillemots, Razorbills and Manx Shearwaters - avidly feeding. Elsewhere along the route there were many more of the same scattered in small groups: hundreds of Guillemots, slightly fewer Razorbills; a good sprinkling of Gannets and Kittiwakes, about 150 or more Manx Shearwaters and even 3 Puffins.
No birding news actually on Islay today, but a photo from RSPB Lucy of a lizard seen on The Oa.
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