After more heavy rain overnight, today was squally with heavy showers between sunshine and a good SW breeze.
A look around the Loch Gorm area this morning located the
small number of Barnacle Geese that have already arrived. There were 30 with 5
Pink-footed Geese tucked in with a flock of Greylags on stubble at Sunderland
and another 15 with Greylags on stubble between Machir and Coull. At Ballinaby
there was a single Whooper Swan with another bunch of Greylags.
This afternoon a check of the two hides at RSPB Gruinart was
quite productive. The heavy rain has nicely topped up water levels and the
wildfowl are coming in. The combined total for both hides was 94 Mallard, 48
Pintail, 277 Teal, 24 Wigeon and 4 Shoveler. There were now 4 Black-tailed
Godwits at the N. Hide and the star attraction was a female / immature Marsh
Harrier at the S. Hide.
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