25th July

A large shearwater sp. was the best of a morning seawatch, with 8 manx shearwater, 2 storm petrel, 36 kittiwake and a red-throated diver also logged. Scattered across the lochs in the North were 46 dunlin, 2 knot and 2 black-tailed godwit, with 600 golden plover, a green sandpiper on Gretchen Loch and a single crossbill in the South of the island.