Monday, 9 September 2024

Sunday 8th & Monday 9th September

The previous three days of "summer" turned into grey, breezy and drizzly on Sunday, with more rain and breezier from the NW on Monday.

Yesterday Martin A. had a Dipper on the River Sorn and a Little Egret and 2 White-tailed Eagles on Bridgend Merse. Clive Mc. witnessed the unusual sight of a couple of dark-phase Arctic Skuas  close by Carnain in Loch Indaal in the evening.

Today Clive weas busy recording near his house at Loch Gruinart with a substantial tally of the first southerly passage of Brent Geese this autumn - 168 passing through and a further 86 staging on the loch in the evening. Along with them were 54 Lesser Black-backed Gulls moving south and 26 Black-tailed Godwits newly arrived with 10 Knot. Over at Cornabus Ed Burrell had 4 Whimbrel on the move.

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