A gorgeous day’s weather - sunny, warm and calm – a great start to June.
But James How sent in the measurements from his rainfall gauge indicating a wet
May with a reading of 90mm this year compared to 40mm last year.
James had seen a Golden Eagle this morning at Gruinart being mobbed by 2
Hen Harriers.
I did a walk at Loch Skerrols this afternoon and again failed to come across
any sign of Great Spotted Woodpeckers – they don’t seem to be so obvious this
year and I’ve not had many reports at all of birds in the usual places where
they’ve been cropping up and breeding in recent years. Let me know if you’ve
been seeing them……….
A later look at the hides at Gruinart confirms we are approaching the
quiet midsummer period. A couple of Black-tailed Godwits are still at the North
Hide and the lame duo of Whooper Swan and Barnacle Goose still survive.
George Jackson sent in a note concerning a new interactive
Eurasian/African Migration Atlas from the BTO. It is all good and exciting
stuff – take a look at it: Eurasian-African
Migration Atlas . However, Islay seems to appear briefly, but rapidly disappears off the face of
the earth as you zoom into to the interactive species maps. Jura remains to the
east and Colonsay to the north but Islay sinks into the Atlantic!
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