Brilliant weather again, with warmer temperatures too. But still cold overnight and one or two odd, isolated and quite heavy icy showers for a short while in the morning.
I met up with Linden in the morning to go back to Laphraoig to look for the possible goshawk. we sat atop a hill with a view over the patches of mixed, mainly coniferous woodland for an hour or two and solved the mystery. A first view was of a pair of Accipiters incredibly high in the sky, one of which displayed and eventually plummeted down quite close to us in strange undulating display flight. It was all so quick that it was difficult to gauge size or see finer details of plumage colour. About 40 minutes later we saw them again, this time a very clear male Sparrowhawk emerged from the forest and went up high to display again with its much larger female mate - problem solved: only Sparrowhawks, but still a fine sight in the sunshine. While sat there we also heard Great Spotted Woodpecker and saw a fine male Crossbill.
Elsewhere today, David D. had Whimbrel, Sandwich Tern and singing Blackcap at Seal Bay and Mary Redman found 6 Golden Plover by her house down in the Portnahaven area for much of the day.
Over on Jura, Fiona McGillivray had a Short-eared Owl and a Green Hairstreak Butterfly near Feolin.
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