Sunday 13th March

The weather here yesterday was rather miserable to put it mildly, hence no entry. I had heard a Song Thrush singing in a bush while I was doing old Len's peats and saw around 50 Fieldfare flying North down there too. Today, a different day, so Bob and myself carried out the WeBs count from Bowmore down to Gartbreck, so here are the birds that we saw, 11 GND, 10 Shag, 3 Cormorant, 5 Mute Swan, 99 Barnies, 28 Whitefronts, 45 Shelduck, 20 Mallard, 39 Wigeon, 40 Teal, 12 Common Scoter, 2 Goldeneye, 9 Eider, 40 R B Merganser, 74 Oystercatcher, 4 Curlew, 10 Barwits, 8 Redshank, 16 Knot, 150 Dunlin, 1 Tystie, 44 Lapwing, 4 Grey Plover, 2 Golden Plover, 30 Ringed Plover, 50 Turnstone, 6 Snipe, 8 GBB Gull, 6 LBB Gull, 20 H. Gull, 20 C. Gull and 48 BH Gull. On the actual gravel where the old farm steading at Gartbreck once stood were 20 Twite.