Sunday was basically a day of more or less unrelenting rain with no bird observations.
Monday was a little better, being mainly dry, but still nothing much like summer. I saw a Little Egret on Loch Gruinart in the afternoon and there was discussion of migrating Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Clive Mc. having counted 145 passing down through Gruinart and 35 over the Big Strand since the 18th. David D. commented he had seen "a couple of hundred" on Loch Kinnabus "a couple of weeks ago" - a fairly high non-passage count for this species on Islay.
Today, it started out wet and nasty but turned into a bright, dry and warm sunny afternoon. Gary T. reports a Merlin chasing Goldfinches on the Oa road at Ghoil Farm and Steve & Lyn Rogers had a young Wheatear in their garden at Emerivale, near Port Ellen.
James had reported a White-tailed Eagle last Saturday that had a black ring with white lettering, which he read as G3 with a number 4 below. David Jardine has emailed to say that the colour-rings should have two numbers below the G3, so at present it doesn't look as if James' ring will be fully traceable.
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