Saturday, 23 December 2023

Saturday 23rd December

No great change in the weather: rain, wind and cloud all day, but the ferries still operated - bravo!

Our intrepid visitor Phil sends in the following:

Despite venturing out in horizontal rain today, there is little to report.  A flock of c. 30 Common Scoter were far out on Loch Indaal from Bruichladdich where a Red-breasted Merganser was having a bad hair day in the wind closer inshore.  Forty-five minutes peering through the rain from the South Hide at RSPB Gruinart produced 19 Whooper Swans (many immature), some 500+ Lapwing; 20+ Golden Plover; 20+ Redshank; 50+ Pintail; uncounted Wigeon and Teal; and a single Little Egret.

 

I wonder if tomorrow might be better.

 

Happy Christmas,




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