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)