Rain at last! Some overnight and a bit more in showers during the day, with plenty of cloud, but still quite warm and humid.
No birds to report today, but there were cetaceans:
Steve & Lynn Rogers had 4 Porpoises near Gigha yesterday on the 6pm ferry and James How had 25 or more Common Dolphins from the Islay - Colonsay ferry today.
There has been a little colony of 4-5 pairs of Black Guillemots nesting in the infrastructure of Bruichladdich pier for quite a few years, but I've not been seeing much evidence of them this season. I took a quick look there this evening and couldn't find any and I wonder if the level of disturbance nowadays is too much even for this usually very tolerant species? They seem to be OK nesting in Oban harbour next to holiday-makers eating ice-creams and fish & chips, but there have been lots of folk out and about on the pier in this recent hot weather and currently Jet-skis are zooming around in noisy circles, close in, for much of the afternoon. It may be perfectly harmless, but who knows?
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