Another day of dry, sunny weather with a light breeze that has gone around more westerly and may portend a change in the weather soon?
Hannah Stanger noted 2 pairs of Sandwich Terns on the buoys at Ardbeg today. Gary T. reported Cuckoo near Ballygrant, David D. finding another this evening at Seal Bay. An Osprey was seen over Balaclava by local vet Samara this afternoon. Along with the birds there were plenty more sightings of butterflies across the island - Orange-tips and Green-veined Whites.
Billy Stitchell was out and about with his camera today and got some remarkable shots of a very predatory Mistle Thrush taking a Common Lizard on the road near to Lily Loch. Malcolm O. has done a bit of initial research of the literature and could only find a note by Eric Simms in 1966 of Mistle Thrushes and Blackbirds attacking and occasionally flying off with Sand Lizards in Merseyside. Malcolm has sent the record off but suggests that this might be the first record of Mistle Thrush taking a Common Lizard.
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