Overcast, damp. misty with very light winds - just like yesterday!
And just like yesterday, Gary T. found the young Little Gull feeding over Loch Indaal just north of Bruichladdich again.
The only other bird news was from Mary-Ann Featherstone who had 200 Greylag Geese and a lone Shelduck at Seal Bay, Kildalton.
Derek Coleman sent in this picture of some very colourful Orange Ladybirds (Halyzia Sedecimguttata), on some tree bark yesterday - presumably hibernating. I'm not sure how common they are on Islay now, but this is part of a post made by Malcolm O. back on 28th June 2011 of the first Islay record found in an allotment in Port Charlotte:
".....we have the first record of Orange Ladybird (Halyzia 16-guttata) for Islay. ...there is only one other species - the Cream-spot Ladybird - which has white spots, but only 14 not 16 of them.
Orange Ladybirds feed mainly on mildew, with aphids, the mainstay food for the majority of ladybirds, only eaten occasionally. There is a single record for Colonsay in 2008."
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