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
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
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)
