Another lovely sunny day, with a further trickle of new summer birds turning up. Ed Burrell had 10 Whimbrel pass through Cornabus and Linden had the first Sedge Warbler of the year on the floods at Gruinart. Mary-Ann Featherstone noticed a couple of Terns (presumably Arctic?) at Kildalton and a Blackcap was heard singing by David D. at Kinnabus early this morning. But spring is in full swing for some species, with James How noting the first Lapwing chicks at RSPB Gruinart.
Visitor Joanna Dailey who had been on Islay back in February, sent in details of a colour-ringed Oystercatcher that she saw on her visit. It was a bird ringed as an adult near Dublin in July 2020 and seen in that area at times every year since. this was the first sighting away from Eire.
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Kilcharan - one dipper, one chough
Port Charlotte Bay - four arctic and 2 sandwich terns
Conisby - cuckoo
Lochindall hotel to Port Mor - 7 singing willow warblers
Gruinart hide- sedgewarbler, several
Pintail and shoveler
John and Susan Kirkman( on holiday from Yorkshire)
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