Here's another of Double D's pics of the young WTE that was hanging around at The Oa recently...
...and here's where it's been recently, courtesy of Ruth Tingay. It's G5/24, a Mull bird.
It's probably one of the few things headed south at the minute. With yet another day of strong SE winds there's lots of stuff on the move. Gary had an osprey at Whin Park, heading toward Gruinart. 6 more blackwits were newly arrived at the Gruinart South Hide. And it's now really slim pickings with geese, with only 8 barnies and 4 white-fronts at Gruinart this evening.
Sand martins now seem to be everywhere, there were plenty presumably enjoying the flies around Bowmore water treatment works. At Gruinart, an otter was walking the woodland trail this morning, the 6 little egrets are still in front of the hides and there was a good count of at least 174 redshank amongst the ducks sheltering in the rushes.
Emily McGarva was kind enough to email in her sightings from today, at Lossit Bay she had 2 male wheatears, 2 ringed plover, many gannets offshore heading south and lots of lapwing displaying in the fields. At Portnahaven, there was a chough over King Street. Thanks Emily.
That's it. Cheerie!
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