The clouds visible from GB's in the morning soon cleared to leave the day sunny and bright. After breakfast I went for a walk along the road and over the moor to Loch an Duin. The large-flowered cultivar of Bistort Persicaria bistorta 'Superba' is grown as an ornamental plant but can also be found wild at the roadside near GB's.

As I walked along I was amazed at the number of flies of various sorts to be found on the Creeping Buttercups, Marsh Marigolds, Yellow Flag and Silverweed. Anything yellow was covered in them. The human population may be sparse in Eagleton and Lower Bayble but for Diptera it is the great metropolis.

Out on the moors the Sphagnum mosses and the Common Cotton Grass were abundant.

Oystercatchers were scooting along at Loch an Duin raising merry hell as they always do. It never ceases to amaze me how far their peeping carries.

I photographed Dun Bayble - the site of an ancient stone fort or dun on an island in the loch with a causeway out to it.

The Dun does not appear at its best from ground level and a satellite shot - from the Google Maps site - shows it to better advantage.

A Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) settled on a patch of Sphagnum for me. A robust damselfly this is one of our most common species and is found throughout the UK from May to September.

A variety of plant types make up the moorland around here - grasses, sedges, rushes, mosses, lichens, and flowering plants. Among the lichens was a Peltigera species - one of the Dog Lichens.

Another lichen here is the incorrectly named Reindeer Moss (Cladonia sp. - probably C. rangiferina).

Even the fence posts are covered in lichens so clean and fresh is the Island air.

Red Rattle or Marsh Lousewort (Pedicularis palustris) was one of the showier flowers hereabouts and, with Tormentil (Potentilla erecta) and Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis), the most common. Quite the opposite, an inconspicuous little bedstraw (Galium sp.) hid among the grasses and mosses. Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris), and Meadow and Creeping Buttercups (Ranunculus acris and R. repens) are other common species on the moor here. Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) can be found alongside the roads and paths.

We went out later in the morning to Tiumpan Head to look at the Kittiwake colony on the cliffs and checked out GB's new spotascope in the process.

The cliffs were not only covered with Kittiwakes but a colony of Guillemots was keeping them company.

A number of Fulmars were also nesting there and a pair can be seen here with a Kittiwake flying nearby.

Shags could also be seen nesting in fair numbers though they were very hard to pick out - there are four in this photo alone.

A Meadow Pipit was gathering food for its young as we left the summit of the headland and had to wait for us to leave to get at its nest.

In the afternoon we popped over to Tolsta to the garden centre where a ground beetle - as yet unidentified but possibly a Bembidion species - posed for me. One of the same species was found dead in the study a day or so ago.

On the way back to Tigh na mara the road was being remade so we had to wait for a short spell and took the opportunity to call down at the jetty where I photographed Bayble Island, Tigh na mara and Lower Bayble.

Back at GB's the Rock Pigeons were still happily feeding at his 'birdorium' which has now been enhanced by a birthday present of a bird bath from Pat and Dave.

Somewhat further away - well out in The Minch - a host of Gannets, gulls and terns were finding their own food having gathered in a flock presumably because of the proximity of a shoal of fish, probably sand eels.