A dry and fairly calm day with more sunshine than cloud.
I missed out a record from Clive McK. yesterday of 7 Lesser Black-backed Gulls at the Bridgend gull roost - the largest count so far this spring.
Today was very spring-like, with Curlews singing on territories heard up at Gruinart by Clive McK.
Kathy Evans found the Red-breasted Goose on the flats near the RSPB Visitor Centre this morning and David Wood made the most of the calm sea conditions to make a good count of birds on Loch Indaal. He found 85 Common Scoter, 32 Slavonian Grebes, 11 Long-tailed Ducks, 21 Great Northern, 8 Red-throated and 1 Black-throated Diver, 64 Red-breasted Mergansers, 56 Eider, 6 Goldeneye and 2 Cormorants - some of these totals being the highest of the winter.
Gary observed a Merlin at Uiskentuie and the usual 2 White-tailed Eagles out on the sand flats at Bridgend.
Ed B. supplied some information on the colour-marked Greenland White-fronted Geese seen a couple of days ago by David Astins. He tells us they were caught as adults at Cornabus this time last year and have been one of very few pairs to have successfully bred this past summer, returning with 6 young this winter.
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