A difficult day with a blazing
force 8 SSE wind but I walked around Hooking and Brides, concentrating on the
coast at high tide (with a little look up at Bewan later as well) and the main
feature was a good build-up of Gulls in the stormy weather including a smart
3cy Kumlien’s Gull feeding in the surf at Brides (not an age I’m
very familiar with) in amongst totals of 190 Common Gulls, 516 Herring Gulls
and 270 Great Black-backed Gulls.
Other birds included a Red-throated Diver, 2
Great-northern Divers, the Barnacle Goose (which has a white darvic ring – YUB
was ringed on Islay in 2013), 14 Long-tailed Ducks, 5 Red-breasted Mergansers,
a Hen Harrier, 2 Merlin, increased totals of 138 Ringed Plover and 45 Dunlin
with big flocks on The Links, a Jack Snipe, 2 Black-headed Gulls, 11 Rock
Pipits, a Robin, 62 Fieldfare, 95 Redwing, a Jackdaw by the lighthouse, a single
Common Redpoll at Holland and 7 Snow Buntings.
Kumlien's Gull
Barnacle Goose
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