More photos from Mark and Sally

 Thanks again to Mark and Sally Johnston for this selection of their recent holiday snaps from Islay.

Barnacle Goose

Paps of Jura from Bunnahabhain

Purple Sandpiper

Rock Pipit

Roe Deer

Slavonian Grebe - Loch Indaal

Five waders

Ringed plover, Turnstone, Oystercatcher, Dunlin and Purple sandpiper face down the north wind at Bruichladdich yesterday.  Outside the distillery really is a top spot for wader watching at the moment.
Carl

Purple Sandpipers (Calidris maritima) at Bruichladdich

Lovely light this afternoon - and there were around a dozen Purple Sandpipers being their usual obliging selves along with good numbers of Ringed Plover and Turnstones down in front of the distillery.  This is an excellent place to find what can be quite an elusive wader.  This stretch of shoreline has to be one of the best on Islay for birdwatching, which is saying something...