With heavy rain and strong winds forecast from mid-morning and then for most
of the day, I decided to head out at first light to try to get at least some
birding in today. I started out at Eoligarry church and had the shock of my
life when I saw probably the yellowest willow warbler I have ever seen!
Following recent events here and given that there was an American yellow
warbler on Tiree as recently as two days ago, it was certainly a heart
stopping moment.
Still there was no sign of the rain and the winds were no worse than moderate
so I drove to Eoligarry jetty, parked up and set off down the beach towards
the wader roost at Scurrival beach. As I walked I nonchalantly day ticked the
two white-tailed eagles on the corpse on the other side of the
water, on a beach on Funday island, which we have seen every day since we arrived.
The sand is covered in otter footprints and we regularly see them here.
It's not a particularly large roost, around 100 ringed plover, 25 sanderling
and about 50 turnstones, but there's always the hope that something else might
be with them today.
At Traigh Mhor I came across these two knot with 117 bar-tailed godwits.
Eleven pale-bellied brent geese were on the sea.
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