The change in the weather that could be considered more "normal" for the time of year, continued today. There was quite a bit of cloud cover and a few almost icy rain rain showers at times with a distinct drop in temperatures despite a fairly southerly airstream.
Ed B. had Islay's first 2025 record of Grasshopper Warbler singing at Cornabus this morning. Clive McK. was watching on Gruinart Floods at the two RSPB hides and noted 40 Sand Martins, 2 Swallows, 39 Redshank, 4 White Wagtails and 2 Black-tailed Godwits.
Here at Bruichladdich I was excited to see a lone Tree Sparrow on my feeders in the garden - a first for me here of a species that is recorded only very occasionally and erratically on Islay with little if any pattern to their occurrence.
Yesterday, in Port Ellen, Duncan MacNeill took the photo below of a pair of resting Sandwich Terns:
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