Don't worry! The blog is still going, but there have been no notified sightings for days as the weather has presumably convinced people not to venture far from home. The weather has been variable - some very light snow and cold/icy conditions, giving way today to much milder weather with the snow melted. Winds have been at worst "breezy" and nothing like the awful weather being experienced further south in the UK - nor the heavy snowfalls in northern Scotland.
The better conditions today resulted in a few records coming in - David D. had a Long-tailed Duck on loch Kinnabus - unusual to have a sighting on a freshwater loch. Ed B. saw the parvipes type Canada Goose down at Cornabus along with 5 Pink-footed Geese. There was also a report sent in of the Red-breasted Goose being seen in fields with Barnies above the moorland trail at Gruinart.
Here at Bruichladdich, with a flat calm sea and milder weather, the 6 or more Black Guillemots at the pier seemed to be pairing up, displaying and pretending it was spring!
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