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Islay Birds
05.09.2024
Jim Dickson sent in details of birds seen on his brief visit: 1st September: 2 Storm Petrel on crossing near Islay; 4 Shoveler & 24 Wigeon...
03.09.2024
Pleasant enough weather on Saturday and Sunday, but greyer and drizzly on Monday morning. On Saturday 2 White-tailed Eagles were again in s...
31.08.2024
On Wednesday and Thursday the weather continued in its unpleasant formula of a bit of sunshine fooling us into thinking it was summer follow...
28.08.2024
Sunday was basically a day of more or less unrelenting rain with no bird observations. Monday was a little better, being mainly dry, but sti...
25.08.2024
Another day of the same unpredictable weather: rain, then shine, then rain , then shine......... A further note from yesterday, that I overl...
24.08.2024
The gale force winds and rain causing flooding in other parts of the UK today didn't reach this far where it was another day of occasional s...
23.08.2024
There was plenty of rain on Wednesday, which finally dried up in the early morning of Thursday. Yesterday Gary T. and Linden K. both watched...
21.08.2024
The mix of rain and showers continues and worsens! Much more stormy on Tuesday with heavy showers including hail. Tomorrow looks even worse ...
19.08.2024
Two more days of intermittent sunshine and showers. George Jackson had 3 Greenshank flying South, calling, between Bruichladdich and Port C...
17.08.2024
Another day of sunshine and showers. Linden started the day's reports off with a Sparrowhawk at Gruinart (I saw one race through my garden ...
16.08.2024
Three days with not a lot to report other than very variable weather: some real downpours of rain between bright sunny spells. David D. had ...
13.08.2024
Quite changeable weather with sunshine at times but rainy and stormy weather passing through at others. Yesterday there were reports of Whit...
11.08.2024
A generally quite pleasant sunny day with a light breeze. Choughs were on the radar today: Mary Redman saw a pair down at Portnahaven area y...
10.08.2024
The day started out wet and breezy, but gradually got sunnier, but still with a breeze from the SW. After yesterday's message from Alistair ...
09.08.2024
The day of the Islay Show, with decent dry sunny weather in the morning deteriorating to rain and increasing wind in the afternoon and eveni...
08.08.2024
Mostly sunny and pleasant yesterday, but slightly windier and raining today at times. A late not for Monday came in, with Alistair seeing a ...
06.08.2024
Apologies for the long gap between posts, but rather than posting "nothing much if anything to report" each day, I thought I'd wait till som...
01.08.2024
A further three days of reasonable summery weather with some decent spells of sunshine and warmth plus odd cloudy rainy patches. Clive Mc. ...
29.07.2024
A late entry for Thursday from Clive Mc. was a group of 12 Little Terns in the late evening at Loch Gruinart. Three fairly pleasant, proper ...
26.07.2024
A cooler, windier and rainy day on Wednesday, slightly brighter on Thursday, with very few bird notes coming in. Yesterday Jamie Johnson not...
24.07.2024
A pleasant, warm, sunny and fairly calm summer's day. A late report in for yesterday from Clive Mc. who had seen 4 Little and 3 Arctic Terns...
23.07.2024
Firstly, a big "Thank You" to Linden for doing the blog in my absence. The weather yesterday and today was a mix of light winds with sunny ...
21.07.2024
Two Spotted Flycatchers reported by David this morning at Kinnabus. Gary had a mega report from Bunnahabhain of 34 Black Guillemot, 2 Great...
20.07.2024
A very quiet couple of days in the bird chat with the only report being my sighting of a Little Egret at Gruinart - potentially the same on...
18.07.2024
At Loch Gorm this morning Lauren had a fishing Osprey, Gary had a lone Whimbrel north of Bruichladdich Pier. Chatting to David at the Oa y...
17.07.2024
This morning Sam had a White-Tailed Eagle flying over Kilmeny Church towards Keppols, and slightly later a great report of 5 Red-Throated D...
16.07.2024
Only one sighting from Sunday and that was Mary's very early Marsh Fritillary webs. In the early hours of this morning Gary spotted a hun...
14.07.2024
Some excellent reports coming in to start the weekend off, firstly from Mary with a Dark Green Fritillary on the wing and a family of Spotte...
13.07.2024
A late report emailed in yesterday from Stephen on a visit to Jura ticking off several raptors starting with a juvenile Golden Eagle being ...
12.07.2024
My highlight from the day at Gruinart were a very vibrant Lesser Redpoll, our usual pair of Bullfinch and a young male Hen Harrier. More ex...
11.07.2024
A slightly gruesome day in the bird chat with the only report coming in from Mary after a walk at Kilchoman of a couple of dead Shearwater,...
10.07.2024
Just a couple of reports coming in today with the wind picking up again after a welcome break in the weather. This morning at The Oa car pa...
09.07.2024
Glorious weather again with calm, warm sunny conditions, though this is scheduled to change into a solid belt of rain approaching from the s...
08.07.2024
Another glorious sunny and calm day. David Dinsley saw a Swift high over Loch Kinnabus, plus a Cormorant and a female Shelduck with a brood...
07.07.2024
A pleasant sunny day - a little more like summer. Apart from a few reports of regular species there was an Osprey seen by Gary T. being har...
06.07.2024
An improvement in the weather from cool and rainy yesterday to eventually a very pleasant calm and sunny day today. Yesterday was fairly qui...
04.07.2024
A mostly wet, grey, drizzly and quite breezy day again with occasional bursts of dry and sunshine. Linden sent in a report of an email recei...
03.07.2024
Another drizzly, grey day with a moderate breeze and just occasional sunny bits. Quiet on the bird front today, with a report from Val Peaco...
02.07.2024
Grey and drizzly today, Yesterday Mary Redman found a male Kestrel that had seemingly been predated by a Buzzard that had left a few of its...
01.07.2024
Given that I'm condensing four days into one blog, you can tell that there isn't much to report. The weather has been very different day to...