Monday's weather started fair - dry, light breezes and patchy sunshine, but clouded up and drizzled a little towards the end of the day. Today was dry, but dull with light cloud cover and with a moderate SW breeze, though it turned quite rainy by early evening.
There were no birds recorded on Monday. Today, Theo arrived with a group and sent in a good list of sightings. Up at Ardnave, around the point, Nave Island and the loch they found 3 Purple Sandpipers, 40 Sanderling, a juvenile Golden Eagle, 2 Tufted Duck, 5 Whooper Swans, 5 large Canada Geese 120 Golden Plovers and 70 Bar-tailed Godwits.
Up at Ballinaby were 30 Skylarks, 20 Ringed Plover and 10 Turnstone, while at Carnduncan they found two Greenland White-fronted Geese bearing neck collars: CZK and V3C - anybody know who these are??
Finally at Craigens, a Russian White-fronted Goose was photographed.
Here in Bruichladdich there were 2 Greenfinches on my bird feeders - such a shame that they are so scarce nowadays. Val Peacock had 2 Siskins on her feeders at Port Charlotte and saw the usual 2 White-tailed Eagles up at the top of Loch Indaal at Bridgend.
David Wood tells us that the two colour-ringed Twite seen a few days ago at The Oa were both ringed there - one in November 2023, the other in November 2024.
Clive McK. reminds us that he will be giving a talk at the Islay Natural History Trust AGM on this coming Thursday - do try and be there if you can.
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