A dry, fairly mild and calm day. Steve Lister, a regular visitor to Islay is back with us and sent in a few records from his day’s birding. Off Bowmore he found 4 Long-tailed Ducks and 3 Slavonian Grebes, 10 Great Northern and 2 Red-throated Divers plus 2 Scaup. Later he was down on The Oa and was delighted to come across the huge flock of 500 Twite at Kinnabus.
Elsewhere,
Mary-Ann Featherstone had 3 Great Northern Divers, 2 WTE and an Otter on her
home territory at Cnoc Bay. Steve & Lyn Rogers over at Port
Ellen// Kilnaughton found a couple of Golden Eagles, and singles of Great
Northern and Red-throated Divers in the bay. David Dinsley continued his run of
many sightings of Merlin with another seen near the airport.
Yesterday,
Mary Redman sent in a couple of “spot the WTE” photos, which I share with you
tonight. This is the easy one - which of the three is it and what are the other species involved?
Finally,
David Wood sent us his link to the very worthwhile and informative book we
mentioned yesterday. Take a look…………
‘Into the red’ book link https://www.bto.org/our-science/publications/bto-books-and-guides/red
Limited edition Twite print from the book with 20% going to BTO/RBBP - https://www.islayprints.co.uk/products/twite-limited-edition-original-linoprint
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