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)