The Birds of Islay and Jura Published February 2026


Friday, 12 January 2024

Friday 12th January

Cold, Greyer and damper, but still quite calm today. 

Andy Sallabank was up at Ardnave finding a Grey Plover and Purple Sandpipers, plus a Golden Eagle and a pair of Peregrines chasing the waders.

David Dinsley checked Kilnaughton Bay at Port Ellen where he found 11 Whooper Swans and a drake Gadwall (plus an Otter).

Here at Bruichladdich I noticed that the Black Guillemots are beginning to investigate their usual nest sites in the pier - spring is in the air!

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