May 2021 – Sightings

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 (large pod)
  • Arctic Tern
  • Cinnabar moth

26/5/2021

  • Common Dolphin (c70)
  • Turnstones (x3)

25/5/2021

  • Shoveler (pair)
  • Peregrine (x2)
  • Great Skua
  • Golden Plover (x5)
  • Hen Harrier (x2)
  • Moss Carder Bee
  • Mackay’s Horsetail

24/5/2021

  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Snow Goose (x2)
  • Corncrake
  • Arctic Skua
  • Great Skua
  • Shelduck (x4)
  • Teal (x2)
  • Canada Goose (x2)
  • Whimbrel (x6)
  • Whitethroat
  • Spring Squill

23/5/2021

  • Corncrake
  • Little Tern
  • Mute Swan (x2)
  • Flea Sedge

22/5/2021

  • Lesser Redpoll (dead)
  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Mountain Everlasting

21/5/2021

  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Arctic Skua
  • Boxing Hares

19/5/2021

  • Pheasant (1 female)
  • Dunlin
  • Red-throated Diver (x2)
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Minke Whale

18/5/2021

  • Otter
  • Peregrine
  • Cuckoo (x 3 bubbling and croaking)
  • Corncrake
  • Hen Harrier (1 male, 1 female)
  • Woodpigeon
  • Whimbrel

17/5/2021

  • Redpoll
  • Sedge Warbler

16/5/2021

  • Moth trap – Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet; Glaucous Shears
  • Canada Goose (pair plus 5 goslings)
  • Eider (x2)
  • Shelduck (x2)
  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Bitter Vetchling
  • Pignut
  • Goldenrod
  • Hemlock Water-dropwort
  • Green-ribbed Sedge

15/5/2021

  • Cuckoo (bubbling)
  • Shelduck (x2)
  • Eider (pair)
  • Great Skua
  • Blinks
  • Bog Stitchwort

14/5/2021

  • Grasshopper Warbler
  • Great Northern Diver (x2)
  • Corncrake
  • Turnstone
  • Short-necked Oil Beetle (x3 female x1 male)
  • Spring Squill
  • Common Whitlowgrass

13/5/2021

  • Moth trap – Puss Moth
  • Green Hairstreak
  • Red Admiral

12/5/2021

  • Moth trap – Hebrew Character; Red Chestnut; Depressaria radiella
  • Chiffchaff
  • Little Tern (x c10)
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Little Grebe
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Hen Harrier
  • Great Skua
  • White-beaked Dolphin (x c12)
  • Ringed Plover (x c90)
  • Dublin (x c60)
  • Golden Plover (x8)
  • Whimbrel (x3)
  • Mossy Saxifrage

11/5/2021

  • Razorbill
  • Great Northern Diver (x2)
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Arctic Tern (in abundance)
  • Little Tern (x2)
  • Harbour Porpoise

10/5/2021

  • Golden Plover (x19)
  • Buzzard

9/5/2021

  • Red-throated Diver (x5)
  • Hen Harrier (x4 male, x1 female)
  • Grasshopper Warbler
  • Corncrake (x4)
  • Greenland Wheatear
  • White Wagtail
  • Sanderling (x3)
  • Otter (x3)
  • Tutsan

8/5/2021

  • Hen Harrier
  • Great Skua
  • Hare’S-tail Cotton-grass
  • Rook (v unusual)

6/5/2021

  • Canada Goose (+ 1 juvenile)
  • White Wagtail
  • Eider (x3)
  • Teal (x2)
  • Shelduck (x2)
  • Arctic Skua (x2)
  • Woodpigeon (x2)
  • Whimbrel
  • Red-breasted Merganser

5/5/2021

  • Whinchat
  • Great Skua
  • Turnstone (x15)
  • Eider (pair)
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Whimbrel (x4)
  • Dunlin (x102)
  • Ringed Plover (x53)
  • White Wagtail (x20)
  • Red-breasted Merganser (x3)
  • Greenland Wheatear
  • Golden Plover
  • Twite (x2)
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Fulmar
  • Buzzard (x2)
  • Sanderling (x5)
  • Common Tern (x2)
  • Cornsalad
  • Rue-leaved Saxifrage
  • Common Whitlowgrass
  • Sea Campion (in flower)
  • Sea Spleenwort
  • Spring Squill

3/5/2021

  • Redwing (x2)

2/5/2021

  • Barnacle Goose
  • Whimbrel (x5)
  • Golden Plover (x120)
  • Whooper Swan
  • White Wagtail (x2)

1/5/2021

  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Little Tern (x25)
  • Whimbrel (x4)
  • Swallow
  • Dunlin (x4)
  • Common sandpiper