I called into the Turn carpark at lunchtime to see the distant but dense flock of manxies with closer small groups passing. A lone common scoter was drifting south on the tide but close enough to see the yellow on its bill.
I paid my carpark fee to a young RSPB volunteer who cheerfully told me what was going on and where to stand! The volunteers manning this scoping point will be there all of August and are part of the Date with Nature programme which I have to confess has passed me by. There was a steady stream of interested members of the public so it is a venture worth supporting and probably more so when the weather isn't quite so nice!
2 hobbies hunting dragonflies on Cors Caron earlier today but only a heron and two young moorhens in front of the waiting room earlier still when it was still very foggy. A rare wader will be there when I'm having a lie-in....