Owen and Glynis Roberts kicked off their day with some birding at Uiskentuie, where they saw eight adult male long-tailed Ducks, four Slavonian Grebes and an amazing, almost straight line of 19 Red-throated Divers slicing their way through a flat calm Loch Indaal. They head over to Gruinart in the afternoon where they saw a white-tailed eagle and a ringtail hen harrier hunting in the fields (counts later upped by Dan Brown who saw 2 WTE and 4HH in the same area, along with 3 golden eagles). Owen and Glynis also report two straggling swallows still at Port Charlotte.
Louise Muir also found a summer visitor not quite ready to give up the Scottish weather just yet: a wheatear at Knockrome. On her drive between the Jura ferry and Craighouse last night she also saw numerous woodcocks.
Also on Jura, Jura Neil McMahon reports four otters, lots of Great Northern Divers and a red-throated diver, as well as providing us with a catch-up sighting of a pink foot spotted amongst a mixed goose flock at Port Ellen on Friday.
On his last full day of this trip to Islay, Richard Belter went to Machair Bay where he found two knot.
Judith Hooper had a productive afternoon's birding on the Killinallan side of Loch Gruinart where she saw a - mercifully alive! - grey phalarope, 30 sanderling, 3 greenshank, endless redshank and curlew, 50 barwits, 100+ dunlin and 60 ringed plover. She also reports six long tailed tits seen from the Sanaig road.
Dan Brown is back on Islay; from his ferry journey he brings us counts of 36 GNDs, 10 RTDs 5 whoopers, 9 porpoises, as well as a pair of Canada geese on the islands in the Sound of Islay. He also reports a water rail at Loch Gruinart and 70+ twite along with 20 reed bunting at Loch Gorm.
In non-bird news, Jackie Wedd was watching an otter by the Port Charlotte lighthouse, but today's star non-avian sighting has to be this whopping flapper skate egg case, found by Dave Protherough on the Big Strand (pictured).
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