Category: Sightings

MID-ARGYLL: At head of Loch Gilp early pm – 2 adult Little Gulls (Jim Dickson).
TIREE: Sea-watch highlight of off Aird late this pm in NW7 was 3 Little Auks (John Bowler).

TIREE: All 3 Ring-necked Ducks (m, f and imm m) together again at Loch a’ Phuill in the gloom today (John Bowler).

TIREE: 1m and 1f Ring-necked Duck at Loch a’ Phuill today – no obvious sign of the GW Teal. 3CY Ring-billed Gull on the machair on the west side of Loch a’ Phuill with 120+ Common Gull. 1 Fieldfare with 30 Redwing at Meningie. Now 18 Jackdaws plus 1 Rook at Loch an Eilein (John Bowler).
KINTYRE: A Little Egret was seen again at the head of West Loch Tarbert (Robert Swift).

ISLAY: A leucistic Common Gull back (or different bird) on Machair bay today, I wonder where it has been since February last year (Mike Peacock).
MID-ARGYLL: A great sighting of a Golden Eagle on a sheep carcass today. It was between Bun an Loch and Doide Cottage about a mile south of Castle Sween (Ali Ross).

TIREE: A drake Green-winged Teal, 3 Ring-necked Duck (1m,1f,1 imm m), 1m Pochard, 1 imm/f Scaup, 6 Gadwall and 9 Shoveler at Loch a’ Phuill. Todd’s Canada Goose again at Caoles – also there on 31 Dec – Christian Verstraete. Interesting Aythya duck (potential 1w f Lesser Scaup) at Loch Bhasapol (John Bowler).
MID-ARGYLL: Just seen my first Nuthatch through kitchen window at home. Earlier at Lochgilphead front green watched  a Kingfisher hunting. (David Pearson).

MID-ARGYLL: Female Kingfisher and juv Iceland Gull at head of Loch Gilp, Purple Sandpiper at Duncuan Island and a Coot at Loch Ceann a’ Chroin (David Jardine)

ISLAY: Mike Peacock sent through images showing some of the large numbers of Twite at The Oa (biggest UK concentrations)….today – 384 at Upper Killeyan, Oa , also 61 Great Nothern and 5 Red-throated Diver swimming out of Loch Indaal to roost Laggan Point.

MID-ARGYLL: A flock of 16 Waxwings at the Avenue in grounds of Inveraray Castle this morning (Glyn Toplis).
TIREE: A male Green-winged Teal new at Loch a’ Phuill today in amongst 320 Teal – also 3 Ring-necked Duck, 1f Scaup, 1m Pochard (John Bowler).

KINTYRE: Yesterday – now 6 Northern Shoveler at Campbeltown Loch – an outstanding Argyll mainland occurrence. Also, 3 Gadwall and a Common Scoter at Machrihanish (Eddie Maguire).

ISLAY: A 1CY Little Gull today at Gortan, Loch Indaal (Bob Davison per Ian Brooke).