Continuing westerly winds, but much brighter and sunnier in the morning, clouding up again by late afternoon with very little rain.
Whooper Swans continue to migrate
through the island without stopping too long. A cumulative total of c.100 were
notched up today in small groups flying in a generally southerly direction.
Other interest noted was a group
of 6 Arctic Terns seen by Richard Belter sat on the rocks by Bruichladdich
Distillery (with 5 Red-throated and one Great Northern Diver offshore). Laura Nicoll on a walk to Port an eas out on The
Oa from Kilnaughton had a group of 8 Chough.
“Bird of the Day” however, goes
to Richard who found a Grey Phalarope close inshore by the slipway at Port Wemyss
at lunchtime. It hung around long enough for Fiona M. to see it, but it had
gone by the time I arrived.
My only contribution today: a couple
of Pink-footed Geese with Greylags at Claddach, 100 Tufted Duck and a Goldeneye on Loch Gorm and
a flock of c.900 Starlings in the stubble at Kilchoman.
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