Happy Longest Day Of The Year.
I was off Islay yesterday in Glasgow witnessing torrential downpours in the evening that stopped the Scotland versus Georgia football match for an hour and a half. I've no idea if it was quite so wet on Islay? Today it seems mostly sunny with dark clouds and odd showers threatening and still quite warm with 20+ degree temperatures.
There was no bird news at all for yesterday though a reply regarding "late tadpoles" came forth from Malcolm Ogilvie: "Yes, it would be late if these are frog tadpoles, but toads are always later and so possible, while they could be palmate newts which are the latest of the three.".
Bird news today is a report from David Dinsley of a rufous-type Cuckoo and a pair of Kestrels at Imereval, The Oa.
On my ferry return this afternoon there were a couple of feeding groups of Manx Shearwaters seen totalling 35-40 birds.
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