The weather over here today, well it has remained dry and I think that come tomorrow there will have been some rain around, not a lot but some...
Bob was in touch today with the "scores on the doors" from his WeBs count from Port Charlotte through to Blackrock which he carried out yesterday....
8 Gannets, 6 Shag, 2 Cormorants, 23 Common Gulls, 5 adult Greylags along with 6 goslings, 22 Oystercatchers, 18 Eider, 4 Tysties, 4 Mallard, 21 Redshank, 14 Dunlin, 14 Dunlin & 6 Herring Gulls.
Gary was in touch this morning, to say that he had just seen 2 Ospreys in fishing in at Loch Finlaggan and also 2 RTDs present there also...
Peter also reported a late sighting of a Mandarin Duck ove at Craighouse on Jura, last week on the 17th.
James had been out doing a Corncrake count, and sent me this list of birds seen/ heard when he was out last night....
"Not many Corncrakes calling at a very cold Gruinart last night, but here are a few other
birds
Short eared
owls 2 near Loch Gorm
Water rails 4
different birds calling around Gruinart
Peregrine
Gruinart
WTE Gruinart"
