Another day of fine sunny weather with a cool, light easterly breeze.
I forgot to add the first sighting of Sedge Warbler for the year - and also the first Lapwing chicks on the RSPB Gruinart Reserve to yesterday's blog c/o James How.
Another belated note was from Peggy MacEachern who heard a Cuckoo up at Lily Loch yesterday.
Despite the fine weather there wasn't a lot of bird news to report - David Dinsley saw 2 Sandwich Terns in the bay at Port Ellen, then there were more Cuckoos - 2 seen or heard by Mary-Ann Featherstone at Kildalton and another at Cornabus from Ed Burrell. Elliott Bowman also had Cuckoo at mid Cragabus plus 8 Swallows, a couple of White-tailed Eagles and 4 Buzzards.
Up at the "Kilchoman Reserve" Margaret Brooke reports: "for once it was exciting cutting the grass to see the first Wheatears in the garden and Golden Eagle being mobbed by gulls".
I was pleased to hear Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming in the woodland at Foreland and further sure signs of spring is this photo-grab of a Barn Owl starting the breeding season in style in a purpose-built nestbox on Islay. Perhaps we should be putting out more of these as older buildings that they traditionally nest in become too derelict?
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