Thursday was a busy day of sightings though, with James How's common rosefinch at Gruinart being the pick of them.
Elsewhere, Alan and Karami had goldeneyes at Ardnave Loch and golden eagle, 40+ chough and great northern diver around the Point. Owen and Glynis had a female long-tailed duck and a redhead goosander at Loch Skerrols in the morning, and peregrine and hen harrier chasing the golden plover flock at Loch Gruinart in the afternoon. Cackling goose and a single juv pink-foot on the Flats rounded off their day.
Cam and Luke Christie (aged 13 and 11) sent us their sightings from this week past. Their highlights were a juv WTE going for a cygnet on Loch Indaal on Sunday, with 2 adult WTE nearby on the shipwreck. They had 10 harbour seals between Bunnahabhain and Rhuvaal on Monday and on Wednesday, a big flock of ringed plover and dunlin above the high tide line at Bowmore harbour. 2 purple sands at Carraig Fhada finished their list.
Here's one of their pictures of a WTE causing havoc!
Far too many birds on the whatsapp group to report, but highlights were a coot at Ballygrant Loch (Billy Stitchell), snow bunting on the Big Strand (Gary Turnbull), 6 WTE at Skerrols (Dan Brown) and the kingfisher still hanging around, this time at ICCI. (Gary again).
Huge thanks to all our contributors today and every other day.
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