Two more days of uninspiring, misty, often overcast, sometimes drizzly weather with lightish winds from a westerly direction.
The only bird notes of note for yesterday was the brief sighting of the Red-breasted Goose at Gruinart, by Jack Fleming's house in the afternoon.
In the morning, a twirl around loch Gorm produced 6 Goldeneye there, plus at least 6 Buzzards around the circuit. We looked again for "the goose" in the afternoon, but couldn't find it, though there were impressive numbers of Lapwing up at Gruinart to keep us busy. c.970 were present, first on the fields just down from the Visitor Centre, then all in view on the floods from the North Hide. The loose group of 12 Little Egrets were feeding out on the loch at Gruinart.
Gary T. had 30 Common Scoter off Carrabus and a few more at Bruichladdich where he saw an Otter. The Otter at one point was feeding with two large young around the pier for a good hour or more, much to the delight of my friends visiting.
