Category: Sightings

KINTYRE: The adult ROSS’S GOOSE was refound today at Clochkeil Farm, N of Machrihanish (Jim Dickson, David Jardine, Frank Cavanagh).

ISLAY: The male GREEN-WINGED TEAL was seen again at RSPB Loch Gruinart (James How, Peter Roberts).
MULL: Four BRAMBLING seen around NW Mull today (Scott Robinson).

ISLAY: A male GREEN-WINGED TEAL again at RSPB Loch Gruinart south hide this morning (James How).

MID-ARGYLL: An adult LITTLE GULL feeding in Loch Fyne out from Inverneill – with large group of other gull species inc 1,650 Black-headed (Jim Dickson).

MID-ARGYLL: A male RING-NECKED DUCK was at Glenfeochan Loch, Kilmore today – presumably the returning bird from last winter and also seen at Scammadale on 1 Dec (David Jardine).

ISLAY: A male GREEN-WINGED TEAL again at RSPB Loch Gruinart – seen from the south hide – two were there on 18 Nov (James How).
KINTYRE: The adult ROSS’S GOOSE was relocated again today and is now near Machrihanish airfield in the company of Greenland White fronts (Bob McMillan). Note; this bird has been seen at the same time as the Ayrshire bird therefore is a different individual.

KINTYRE: A fem-type COMMON ROSEFINCH was seen & photographed in the garden at Lephenstrath Bridge this morning by Ann & Noel Hand.

KINTYRE: An adult ROSS’S GOOSE was in fields just NW of Peninver (Jim Dickson, David Jardine) having been seen briefly the previous day from a passing bus and suspected as a Snow Goose (Alasdair Paterson). It seems most likely this is the same un-ringed bird that had been in Ayrshire 40 miles to the east between 26 Sep and 19 Nov. It will be for the BBRC to determine if this counts as a wild bird and become a new species for Argyll. Since the 1950’s when the global population was only 2,500 birds, legal protection and provision of refuges has seen numbers rise to over 3 million birds and there have now been 18 accepted records in Great Britain – however they are widely kept in collections and escapes are not infrequent.

ISLAY: A GREAT WHITE EGRET was found around midday at Loch Kinnabus (David Dinsley).

ISLAY: The CACKLING GOOSE was noted again today at Cornabus (Ed Burrell).