Better weather than forecast, with plenty of sunshine in between squally showers.
Jim Dickson reported on our Islay Birding WhatsApp yesterday that there were masses of good seabirds swilling about in Scottish waters and that we should take a look today. I did just that for an hour and a half this morning off Frenchman's Rocks and saw 168 Manxies, about the same number of Kittiwakes, a handful of Fulmars and 78 Shags sat on Frenchman's Rocks. The nearest I got to "exciting" or "different" was a passing Black-tailed Godwit and an immature Skua that was probably Pomarine, but too far offshore to be sure.
Ever-enthusiastic, Jim tells us in another message this evening that there were vast numbers of Cory's, Great and Sooty Shearwaters, Wilson's Storm Petrels and all sorts off Annagh Head (out on the NW coast of Eire) today, and that we should go and have another look off Frenchman's Rocks tomorrow. Alistair Hart is inspired - I'm not!
The only other bird news today is of a Peregrine over Ardbeg this morning - and another at Kilnaughton this afternoon, seen by Cameron Murray.
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