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08.05.2025

Islay Birds: Wednesday 7th May

Further bright, dry and sunny weather today, with a light, cooling breeze at times, though seas flat calm. Clive McK. reports a fine Golden ...

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07.05.2025

Islay Birds: Tuesday 6th May

Another day of fine sunny weather with almost calm conditions. The unusually large numbers of Whimbrel passing through and stopping over on...

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06.05.2025

Islay Birds: Sunday 4th & Monday 5th May

Two days of bright, dry and sunny weather, though with a cool breeze at times. Many thanks to Malcolm O. for doing the blog in my absence. I...

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04.05.2025

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Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd May 2025 A bit of drizzle Friday morning, then becoming sunny again, but rather spoilt by the cold northerly win...

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02.05.2025

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Thursday 1st May 2025 Some rain overnight and a few very light showers in the morning, before clearing to mostly overcast, while it was noti...

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01.05.2025

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Tuesda7 29th & Wednesday 30th April 2025 Two fine days, Wednesday in particular becoming sunny and warm. Tuesday's bird records came largely...

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29.04.2025

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Monday 28th April 2025 A dry day but less sun than promised/hoped for, but lots of bird records came in so here goes. David D started it off...

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28.04.2025

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Friday 25th, Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th April 2025 Friday was damp all day, Saturday was rather better though with some rain, and Sunday cl...

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25.04.2025

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Thursday 24th April 2025 Another lovely sunny day though with an increasing SE wind, and only really warm in sheltered spots. There's very...

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24.04.2025

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Tuesday 22nd April & Wednesday 23rd April 2025 Tuesday was a bit damp, but Wednesday was sunny and warm all day. Lovely! On Tuesday, Mary Re...

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22.04.2025

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Monday 21st April 2025 Easter Monday, which was rather damp during the day, but clearing up in the late afternoon, has produced a new speci...

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21.04.2025

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Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th April 2025 The weather forecast for Saturday was only too accurate, as it rained on and off all day. Sunday wa...

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19.04.2025

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Thursday 17th & Friday 18th April 2025 On Thursday, Cuckoos were reported at Kildalton Churchyard by Peter Gill and at the Finlaggan road en...

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17.04.2025

Islay Birds: Wednesday 16th April

A major change in the weather today being cold, breezy, largely overcast with some substantial rain. In keeping with the more wintry weather...

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16.04.2025

Islay Birds: Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th April

The weather is now a little more changeable: cooler, light westerly winds, and a few showers, some heavy, but largely bright and sunny - cl...

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14.04.2025

Islay Birds: Sunday 13th April

The change in the weather that could be considered more "normal" for the time of year, continued today. There was quite a bit of cloud cove...

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13.04.2025

Islay Birds: Saturday 12th April

At last - a slight change in the weather with some light hazy cloud and cooler temperatures followed by light drizzly rain in the evening. C...

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12.04.2025

Islay Birds: Friday 11th April

Further sunny, dry and warm weather. Peter Gill was over on Jura today and noted a Kestrel near Feolin and our first Common Sandpipers of th...

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11.04.2025

Islay Birds: Thursday 10th April

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? Hanna...

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10.04.2025

Islay Birds: Wednesday 9th April

Weather? "Same old" - warm, sunny, dry, very light breeze - glorious! Birds being reported from all quarters today: This morning Chris Hind ...

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09.04.2025

Islay Birds: Tuesday 8th April

Wall-to-wall sunshine today, and with the wind dropping, it was distinctly warm too. Despite the fantastic weather there were precious few ...

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08.04.2025

Islay Birds: Monday 7th April

The sunshine never ends! There was a belated report of a female Black Redstart on the road between Gruinart and Ardnave yesterday, where Cl...

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07.04.2025

Islay Birds: Sunday 6th April

These weather reports are becoming very repetitive! Yes - another dry, sunny day with a light to moderate breeze from the east. Marc Eden st...

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06.04.2025

Islay Birds: Friday 4th & Saturday 5th April

Two more days of dry, sunny weather with a cool easterly breeze. However, there has been very little bird news to report. Yesterday Clive Mc...

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04.04.2025

Islay Birds: Thursday 3rd April

Continuing high pressure providing dry, sunny weather with a moderate SE wind - very pleasant weather indeed! More conversations on the What...

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03.04.2025

Islay Birds: Wednesday 2nd April

Another splendid dry day of sunshine and light easterly winds. A few more geese were noted heading away today, but there was more emphasis o...

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02.04.2025

Islay Birds: Tuesday 1st April

A bright sunny and dry day with a strong SE breeze. The wind is now favourable for our winter geese to head directly to Iceland en route to ...

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01.04.2025

Islay Birds: Monday 31st March

Fairly cloudy, but only light winds and no rain. Lots of discussion on the WhatsApp group today about migrating Greenland White-fronted Gees...

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31.03.2025

Islay Birds: Sunday 30th March

A fine, dry, quite calm day, with more of the same in the offing, with a substantial high pressure system over the UK for much of the coming...

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30.03.2025

Islay Birds: Saturday 29th March

A quite cloudy, windy day, starting out dryish, but increasingly with squally rain showers blowing in. There were several of us heading down...

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29.03.2025

Islay Birds: Friday 28th March

A quite cold day with blustery winds from the north-west and occasional sleety downpours between bright sunshine. An extra record of 25+ San...

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28.03.2025

Islay Birds: Thursday 27th March

An overcast, cloudy and rainy sort of day, though winds still light. The only bird news today was of 15 Fieldfares seen by Wendy & John Matt...

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27.03.2025

Islay Birds: Tuesday 25th & Wednesday 26th March

Two days of reasonable springlike weather - mostly, dry, sunny with light winds. Not much of the news on the posts was very pleasant though...

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25.03.2025

Islay Birds: Monday 24th March

The day started out fairly sunny and dry, but clouded over in the afternoon and began to rain, becoming quite persistent by evening with an ...

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24.03.2025

Islay Birds: Sunday 23rd March

Back to pleasant sunny weather with a light breeze again today. John and Wendy Mattingley, over on Islay for another visit, found our first...

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23.03.2025

Islay Birds: Saturday 22nd March

Cloudier with a moderate northerly breeze and light rain a lot of the time from late morning onwards. The Hoopoe was present again in the sa...

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22.03.2025

Islay Birds: Thursday 20th & Friday 21st March

The fine weather continued on Thursday - dry, sunny, light breeze from the SE. This continued into Friday morning, but, as predicted, the cl...

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20.03.2025

Islay Birds: Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th March

Another two days of dry, sunny weather with light winds and cool temperatures. Just two notes from yesterday: Clive McK. watched a White-ta...

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18.03.2025

Islay Birds: Sunday 16th & Monday 17th March

Two further fairly pleasant if cold days with plenty of sunshine on Sunday, a but less on Monday, but dry and quite calm. Yesterday Ed B. h...

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16.03.2025

Islay Birds: Saturday 15th March

Continuing lovely sunny weather today with clear skies and calm seas. Reports of other wildlife include a Red Admiral seen yesterday afterno...

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Islay Birds: Wednesday 16th April

Islay Birds: Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th April

Islay Birds: Sunday 13th April

Islay Birds: Saturday 12th April

Islay Birds: Friday 11th April

Islay Birds: Thursday 10th April

Islay Birds: Wednesday 9th April

Islay Birds: Tuesday 8th April

Islay Birds: Monday 7th April

Islay Birds: Sunday 6th April

Islay Birds: Friday 4th & Saturday 5th April

Islay Birds: Thursday 3rd April

Islay Birds: Wednesday 2nd April

Islay Birds: Tuesday 1st April

Islay Birds: Monday 31st March

Islay Birds: Sunday 30th March

Islay Birds: Saturday 29th March

Islay Birds: Friday 28th March

Islay Birds: Thursday 27th March

Islay Birds: Tuesday 25th & Wednesday 26th March

Islay Birds: Monday 24th March

Islay Birds: Sunday 23rd March

Islay Birds: Saturday 22nd March

Islay Birds: Thursday 20th & Friday 21st March

Islay Birds: Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th March

Islay Birds: Sunday 16th & Monday 17th March

Islay Birds: Saturday 15th March

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