Category: Sightings

KINTYRE: A TREE SPARROW again in the garden at Lephenstrath Bridge & a male RING OUZEL nearby (Ann & Noel Hand).
MID-ARGYLL: A HAWFINCH seen near the group of 30+ WAXWINGS in Oban just after midday (Neil McMahon et al)

TIREE: A calling tristis ‘Siberian’ CHIFFCHAFF at Meningie (next to Loch a’ Phuill) this afternoon (John Bowler).

KINTYRE: A TREE SPARROW – scarce in Argyll was a new garden species for Ann & Noel Hand at Lephenstrath.

MULL: A sighting of a PALLID SWIFT candidate along the shore at Lochbuie then headed off west (Theo de Clermont et al).
TIREE: The FIRECREST at Balephuil is still there today.

ISLAY: The female AMERICAN WIGEON showing again on the pool towards Cornabus & a juv AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER found on the Gruinart flats this afternoon (Dave Fairhurst). The 1w LESSER GREY SHRIKE is still at Braigo.
TIREE: The FIRESCREST is still at Balephuil today (John Bowler, Andy Robinson).

ISLAY: A good candidate for a female AMERICAN WIGEON at the junction between road to The Oa & to Cornabus (Dave Fairhurst, Ed Burrell).
TIREE: A FIRECREST in a garden at Balephuil this afternoon (John Bowler).

ISLAY: The 1w LESSER GREY SHRIKE and RED-BREASTED GOOSE are still on the island – also a report of 3 CACKLING GEESE there.
KINTYRE: A report of a GREAT WHITE EGRET at West Loch Tarbert 1km west of Kennacraig (Neil McMahon). Also at least 30 LITTLE EGRETS now across Argyll…

MID-ARGYLL: A WAXWING was seen at Port Ann today (Dan Brown).

JURA: A YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER calling in trees by church at Craighouse today (Neil McMahon).
TIREE: A TREECREEPER at Carnan Mor, Balephuil today showed clean white underparts, a broad white supercilium and white crown/nape spots all consistent with a Northern race bird (John Bowler). This race from Scandinavia & Eastern Europe has not previously been confirmed in Argyll before – most UK records tend to be on the east coasts or particularly in the Northern Isles.

Easterly winds are now bringing in more thrush species – with an increase in Fieldfares as well as BRAMBLINGS and now reports of RING OUZELS with 1 at Kilmartin MID-ARGYLL (David Jardine) & on TIREE 1 poss 2 first-winter birds at Carnan Mor – where also a HAWFINCH and nearby a male POCHARD at Loch a’ Phuill (John Bowler).
ISLAY: More sightings of the adult RED-BREASTED GOOSE at Gruinart today.