June 2021 – Sightings

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)
  • Wood Pigeon (x2)
  • Arctic Skua
  • Harbour Porpoise (x2 from ferry)

26/6/2021

  • Hen Harrier
  • Kestrel
  • Lesser Butterfly Orchid
  • Peregrine Falcon (x4)

25/6/2021

  • Hen Harrier
  • Dark Green Fritillary
  • Black-headed Gull (x12)
  • Great Skua
  • Corncrake
  • Eider (x3 females)
  • Grey Seals
  • Northern Marsh Orchid
  • Arctic Skua
  • Manx Shearwaters (x100s moving north)

24/6/2021

  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Eider
  • Twite (family group)
  • Pyramidal Orchid
  • Eel-grass (Zostera marina)
  • Snow Goose (x6)
  • Dunlin
  • Great Skua
  • Arctic Skua

23/6/2021

  • Lesser Butterfly Orchids
  • Water Lobelia
  • Pipewort
  • Frog Orchids

22/6/2021

  • Moth trap: Dusky Brocade (24), Grey Scalloped Bar, Poplar Hawkmoth, Clouded-bordered Brindle, Shears, Broom, Small Angle Shades, Knot Grass, Bright-line Brown-eye, Aethes piercei, Elachista argentella
  • Cuckoo
  • Corncrake
  • Little Tern (x2)
  • Grasshopper Warbler
  • Hen Harrier (female and male)
  • Great Skua (x5)
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Arctic Skua
  • Greenfinch

21/6/2021

  • Bottlenose Dolphin (x4 from ferry)
  • Harbour Porpoise (x3 from ferry)
  • Red-breasted Merganser (with 8 ducklings)
  • Hen Harrier

20/6/2021

  • Wood Pigeon (x2)

19/6/2021

  • Coxcomb Prominent (moth)
  • True Lover’s Knot (moth)
  • Hen Harrier (male)

18/6/2021

  • Pebble Prominent (moth – x2)
  • Corncrake
  • True Lover’s Knot (moth)

16/6/2021

  • Red-throated Diver
  • Great Skua
  • Pyramidal Orchid
  • Common Blue (butterfly) first of year
  • Six-spot Burnet (moth) first of year
  • Hen Harrier (x1 female, x1 male)
  • Whimbrel

15/6/2021

  • True Lover’s Knot (moth – x2)
  • Narrow-winged Pug (moth – x2)
  • Light Knotgrass (moth)
  • Otter (x2 juv)
  • Heath Rush

14/6/2021

  • Pheasant (female)
  • Hen Harrier (female)

12/6/2021

  • Sparrowhawk

11/6/2021

  • Red-throated Diver (x2)
  • Great Skua
  • Red-breasted Merganser (x2)
  • White-tailed Eagle

10/6/2021

  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Ruby Tiger (moth)
  • Marsh Arrow-grass
  • Distant Sedge
  • Adder’s-tongue Fern
  • Early Marsh Orchid var. incarnata

9/6/2021

  • Corncrake
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Turnstone (x4)
  • Dunlin (x3)
  • Little Tern (x24)

8/6/2021

  • Moth trap – Map-winged Swift; Fox moth; Knotgrass (x9); Belted Beauty; Poplar Hawkmoth; Elephant Hawkmoth; Buff Ermine; Light Knotgrass; White Ermine
  • Sparrowhawk (male)
  • Hen Harrier (x2 male; x1 female)
  • Golden Plover
  • Mountain Everlasting
  • Pipewort (rosettes)
  • Aspen
  • Royal Fern
  • Whitethroat
  • Otter
  • Arctic Skua
  • Manx Shearwater
  • Red-breasted Merganser (x1 female)
  • Arctic Tern
  • Curlew (x2)

7/6/2021

  • Arctic Skua (2+2)
  • Corncrake
  • Sand Martin
  • Shag
  • Fulmar
  • Hairy Rock-cress
  • Garden Chafers (in abundance)
  • Common lizard (on strand line!)
  • Sea Squill
  • Black-headed Gull (x2)
  • Field Pansy
  • Early Purple Orchid
  • Changing Forget-me-not
  • Early Marsh Orchid var coccinea

6/6/2021

  • Fairy Foxglove
  • Hen Harrier
  • Great Skua (x2)
  • Buzzard (x2)
  • Kestrel

3/6/2021

  • Hairy Sedge (new record for Coll)

2/6/2021

  • Red-throated Diver
  • Arctic Skua (x4)
  • Otter
  • Great Skua (x2)
  • Canada Goose (pr with goslings)
  • Shelduck
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Great Northern Diver

1/6/2021

  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Snow Goose
  • Corncrake
  • Spring Squill
  • Black-headed Gull (x6)
  • Early Marsh Orchid var coccinea
  • Arctic Skua (x2)
  • Sanderling (x5)
  • Little Tern (x12+)
  • Hairy Rock-cress
  • Grey Seal (x4)
  • Peregrine (x2)