Wednesday 17th May

 Another pleasant mid-May day on Islay. 

Steve Clough was down on The Oa and found Grasshopper Warbler singing a mile before the RSPB car park, a Whinchat at Kinnabus and a couple of Choughs out at the American Monument.

Tom Garner was over on Jura for the day and reports 6 breeding-plumaged Great Northern Divers in the Sound plus a Red-throated Diver flying north. There were several Cuckoos calling, a flock of 11 Wood Pigeons near Inver along with a Red Grouse. Also on Jura, Louise Muir reports a Treecreeper at Ardfin.

Back on Islay James How had a couple of somewhat out-of-season Pink-footed Geese on Loch Gorm while Margaret Brooke notes Corncrake calling again up at Kilchoman.