January 2022 – Sightings
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Category: Recent Sightings
December 2021 – Sightings
10/12/2021 Little Auk (x1 from ferry) Guillemot (x20 from ferry) Red-breasted Merganser (from ferry) 9/12/2021 White-fronted Geese (x7) Fieldfare (x2) Redwing (x4) Chaffinch (x25) Goldfinch (x22) Goldcrest (x2) 8/12/2021 Snow …
November 2021 – Sightings
29/11/2021 Merlin (male) 27/11/2021 large fall of Chaffinches and Blackbirds following northerly gales Teal (x20) Mallard (x20) Tufted Duck (x2 male) Great Northern Diver (x2) Red-breasted Merganser 25/11/2021 Teal (x12) …
October 2021 – Sightings
30/10/2021 Ringed Plover (x17) Turnstone (x8) Sanderling (x1) Tufted Duck (a pair) 29/10/2021 White-tailed Eagle Hen Harrier (male) Great Northern Diver (x10) Curlew (x4) Turnstone (x25) Red-breasted Merganser (x6) Peregrine …
September 2021 – Sightings
24/9/2021 Great Skua Hen Harrier (male) Merlin (x2) Great Northern Diver Kittiwake Ringed Plover (x43) Red-breasted Merganser (x6) Twite Red-throated Diver White-fronted Goose (x 1 south) Pale-bellied Brent Goose (x1) …
August 2021 – Sightings
31/8/2021 Peregrine Pipewort (in flower) Water Lobelia Lesser Water-plantain Fir Clubmoss 30/8/2021 Great Skua (x2) Sanderling (x2+4+6) Red-throated Divers (x2) Eider (x4) Shag (x1000) Peregrine Hen Harrier (ring-tailed) Lyme Grass …
July 2021 – Sightings
31/7/2021 Dunnock Goldcrest Hen Harrier Wood Pigeon Greenshank Red-throated Diver Arctic Skua Peregrine 30/7/2021 Small Argent and Sable Twite White Wagtail Knotted Pearlwort 29/7/2021 Irish Ladies-tresses Snipe Bitter Vetchling Lesser …
June 2021 – Sightings
30/6/2021 Moth trap: Dusky Brocade, Campion, Bright-line Brown-eye, True Lovers’ Knot, Shears, Knot Grass, Flame Shoulder, Clouded-bordered Brindle, Coleophora pyrruhulipinnella 28/6/2021 Common Mallow (first for Coll!) 27/6/2021 Curlew (x4 south) …
May 2021 – Sightings
31/5/2021 Blyth’s Reed Warbler (1st for Coll – singing from 11am till dusk) 30/5/2021 Arctic Skua Spotted Flycatcher House Martin 29/5/2021 Hen Harrier (male) 28/5/2021 House Martin 27/5/2021 Common Dolphin …
April 2021 – Sightings
29/4/2021 Otter 28/4/2021 Minke Whale Sedge Warbler Corncrake (x2 – they’re back!) White-fronted Goose (x4) Teal (x7) Mute Swan (x2) Whooper Swan (x3) Shoveler Gadwall (a pair) Tufted Duck Whimbrel …