Monday 9th November

Yet another nice day, with lots of sunshine and light easterly winds.

Ken White started the day off with a White-tailed Eagle flying along the shoreline at Port Charlotte putting everything up, also seeing 2 Twites close to the pier. He later moved to Ardnave and saw an immature Golden and an immature White-tailed Eagle together (see photo), and what was probably another immature White-tailed Eagle sitting on the sand at the mouth of Loch Gruinart.

In the morning, Jack Waldie saw the Cackling Goose to the west of Bridgend, while I noted a single Pinkfoot and a single Light-bellied Brent among Barnacles at Gartmain.

Ed B was very happy to report that a pair of collared Greenland Whitefronted Geese, V5Z and V6Z, caught together at Cornabus in winter 2023/24, had returned there for the third year running with juveniles, making them a very successful pair given that breeding success in the population has not been all that good for several years.