March 2021 – Sightings

March 2021 – Sightings

29/04/2021

  • 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 (x3)
  • Scots Lovage (new site)
  • Lapwing (chicks everywhere)
  • Hen Harrier (x3 males)
  • Mossy Saxifrage (locally abundant)

27/4/2021

  • Pipewort (rosettes developing)
  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Kestrel
  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Rue-leaved Saxifrage

26/4/2021

  • Mute Swan (x2)
  • Hen Harrier (male)

25/4/2021

  • Common Heath moth (first of year)
  • Marsh Violet

24/4/2021

  • Thale Cress (only Coll location)
  • Porpoise (x5)
  • Red-throated Diver (x4)
  • Cuckoo (new arrivals)
  • Hawfinch (major rarity!)

23/4/2021

  • Twite (x5)
  • Barnacle Goose (x120 north)
  • Little Terns (x15 new for year)

21/4/2021

  • Pink Purslane (new for Coll)
  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Long-tailed Tit
  • Black-headed Gull (x7)
  • Eider (x20)
  • Whimbrel (x8)
  • Shoveler (x4)
  • Wigeon (x2)
  • Black-tailed Godwit (x14)
  • Golden Plover (x40+60)
  • Otter (x2)
  • Great Northern Diver (x25)
  • Willow Warblers (first of the year)

20/4/2021

  • Green Hairstreak
  • Common Seal (x75)
  • Golden Plover (x40)
  • Dunlin (x6)
  • Sanderling (x16)

17/4/2021

  • Hen Harrier (a pair)
  • Golden Plover (x4)
  • Sand Martin (at colony)
  • Sea Spleenwort
  • Shelduck (a pair)

16/4/2021

  • Roseroot (new location)

15/4/2021

  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Golden Plover (x5)
  • Arctic Skua (x1)
  • White-tailed Eagle (x3)

14/4/2021

  • Common Scurvy-grass
  • Great Northern Diver (x8 calling)
  • Black Guillemot (x11)
  • Eider (x2 pairs)
  • Red-breasted Merganser (x4 pairs)
  • Shelduck (x2)
  • Canada Goose (2 separate individuals)
  • Peregrine (x2)
  • Otter (2 separate individuals)

12/4/2021

  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Eider (2 pairs)
  • Barnacle Goose (x150)
  • Pink-footed Goose (x70 north)

11/4/2021

  • Water Rail
  • Whooper Swan (x14)
  • Wood Pigeon (x7 pairs)

9/4/2021

  • Whooper Swan (x16)
  • Arctic Skua
  • Bonxie (x 3 in territory)
  • Red-throated Diver (2 pairs in territory)
  • Hen Harrier (pair)

7/4/2021

  • Early Whitlowgrass (new location)
  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Hart’s-tongue Fern (new location)
  • Hen Harrier (male)

5/4/2021

  • Redwing (50+)
  • Chiffchaff
  • Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
  • Merlin (cracking male!)

4/4/2021

  • Eider
  • Great Northern Diver (x3)
  • Mute swan

3/4/2021

  • Bonxie
  • Twite
  • Merlin

2/4/2021

  • Shelduck
  • Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
  • Black Guillemot (x2)
  • Rusty-back Fern (local rarity)
  • Peacock butterfly (x4)
  • White-tailed Eagle (x3)
  • Merlin (female)
  • Moss Carder Bee (queen)
  • Bonxie (x2)

1/4/2021

  • Minke Whale (our first of the year)
  • Manx Shearwaters (north in numbers)
  • Hart’s-tongue Fern (new location!)
  • White-tailed Eagle (x2)
  • Whooper Swan (x16+1)