Sunday 20th November

2 little egrets at Gruinart with a barn owl out and about in the evening. Lucy had 3 WTE on Gruinart Flats, Polly Mather had 2 more at the head of Loch Indaal. 

Steve Rogers had a single pink foot in with the greylags near Kilnaughton, with a cormorant flying over. 

Down that way, Ed also had a water rail at Cornabus. 

Mark and Alison had the last day of their trip, and sound like they will be back sometime. They reported "This morning on the way to Machir beach we had a ringtail Hen Harrier near Gruinart and an adult male Loch Gorm. Ali spotted an almost full adult Golden Eagle agle sat on a mound near the road southeast of the Loch, it soon took off to hunt along a low ridge- superb. Not to be outdone, a pair of adult WT Eagle were throwing their weight around on the Loch. 

Machir had 3 Chough, we heard more of them up at Sanaigmore where another male Hen Harrier put on a show (sadly back home of the edge of the North York Moors they remain very scarce for well publicised reasons, we haven't seen an adult male there for many years).

We finished up at Gruinart at dusk, hoping to see Otter and just as we were about to leave one appeared in front of the southern hide- mission accomplished"

Great pic of the Port Ellen bay dolphins from the other day from David Livingstone

Thanks very much to him and everyone else for the contributions.

Lastly, Dave Wood from The Oa has written a piece on twite for the rspb website here https://community.rspb.org.uk/placestovisit/islay/b/weblog/posts/twite-2108976433