Wednesday 9 January 2008

Tues 8th - Wed 9th Jan

After a rather windy night here on Islay, actually a wind speed of 78mph was recorded at one point at the Airport. Needless to say there have been no ferry sailings from the mainland today, Wednesday, although I believe that the plane managed over.
A second dead turtle has been found, but this time not at Ardnave, but at the other end of Islay, at Loch an t-Sailein which is just past Ardbeg Distillery. It was even mentioned on the BBC news! MAO
A single Snow Bunting was seen on the roadside on the moor beyond West Carrabus up towards Borichill Mor. JRH
Tracey from SNH has just e mailed me with Goose numbers from 2 counts that were done in December, International count on 11-12 Dec tallied 44,529 Barnacle geese, and 6,617 Greenland Whitefronted geese. The following week on 19 -20 Dec the count was 43,243 Barnies and 6,735 Whitefronts. For those of you who wonder how Margaret and Tracey arrive at these numbers, well the whole of Islay is covered by several teams of counters and it is the average over the 2 days that I get from them! Thanks for keeping me posted.

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