Category: Sightings

ISLAY: Still 3 first-winter (2cy) LESSER SCAUP on Loch Skerrols today (Phil Edwards).

Happy New Year! Hopefully a great year of birdwatching to come. Please continue to contact us with any relevant reports and send your records (for 2021 if still to complete) and regularly for 2022 either using the Argyll system (from Malcolm) or uploading to BTO BirdTrack. Also – you can post regular sightings and items of interest on the ABC Facebook group.

ISLAY: A male and female LESSER SCAUP (both 1cy) at Loch Skerrols today (Ian Dearing).

ISLAY: At least one first-winter male LESSER SCAUP still at Loch, also 3 Pochard at Loch Gorm (Peter Roberts).

MULL: An unconfirmed report of a RING-BILLED GULL (age not given) at Lochdon (Andy Oldacre per Mullbirds).

MID-ARGYLL: A LONG-TAILED DUCK on Loch Ederline today (Frank Cavanagh) – always scarce inland!

NORTH ARGYLL: A credible, though unconfirmed report, of a ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD showing many features of this species in a field by the bridge near Glasdrum, Loch Creran.
ISLAY: Still at least 4 1cy LESSER SCAUP at Loch Skerrols.

MID-ARGYLL: A 1cy (first-winter) BONAPARTE’S GULL was found at Blackmill Bay on Luing yesterday early afternoon (David Jardine).

TIREE: A new 1cy (first-winter) male RING-NECKED DUCK at Loch a’ Phuill today brings the total number of this species on the island to four (John Bowler).

ISLAY: A GREAT WHITE EGRET was found this afternoon on pool opposite East Lodge on the Ballygrant road (Gary Turnbull).