Friday 24 March 2023

Weds 22 and Thurs 23rd March

 Apologies for the double-late post.


The rain is still heavy here on Islay but when the sun shines, it's spring! Birds are gathering in pairs and displaying or making nests.  The mallard ducklings ought to appear soon.  I noticed a lot more pied wagtails in the fields this week and more lapwing flocks.

The WTE remain busy sitting around, apparently doing nothing - 5 at the head of Loch Indaal yesterday (thanks Marc).   The American wigeon is present among the Eurasians on Loch Gorm.  An interesting report of a juv Glaucous gull at the top of Loch Indaal, can it be the same bird that remained at Uiskentui so long?

Otherwise quite quiet on the birding front as everyone is in search of the Alpine swift who may fly overhead, though with these winds you'd need to be fast!

Thank you all.

1 comment:

HABIB KHAN said...

Some birds look likes so beautiful. Especially, when a bird mix with blue and orange or Black and orange. I love the orange chest bird with a white beak.

Some little birds are pretty nice for the Orange and blue combination. Orange and blue birds are small but a little bit big. When I research those types of birds, I found about all the birds are small. Really I like these bires.