Colder today with stronger, chilly winds. Again, mostly dry, but showery and sometimes with quite thick clouds.
Scott & Ruby noted a latish
Swallow at Port Charlotte and sent in this photo of the Great Northern Diver
they saw yesterday at Bunnahabhain eating a large flounder. This was presumably
the same bird that Richard Belter saw there today. Richard writes:
“Early morning at Gruinart showed male and ringtail hen harrier, but
facing into bright sunlight showed most birds in silhouette. At Bunnahabhain
great northern diver was out in the bay and a couple of redwing passed through.
Evening produced magnificent sight of thousands of barnacle geese coming in to
roost at Gruinart. “
David Dinsley on The Oa found a
few more Redwings – 30 in all - and up at Ballygrant, Gary T. mentions what
sounds like a larger arrival of thrushes: “Redwings,
Fieldfares and Blackbirds streaming in to a small woodland south of Gartness,
Ballygrant”.
I met up with Richard in the N.
hide at Gruinart this afternoon noting that the Black-tailed Godwits are still with – 15 in
total on the floods with c.300 Lapwings and a very secretive Jack Snipe lurking in the wet vegetation with two Common Snipe.
Finally, David Livingstone sent
in this photo of a lone Chough he saw this morning at Singing Sands.
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