September 2021 – Sightings

September 2021 – Sightings

24/9/2021

  • Great Skua
  • Hen Harrier (male)
  • Merlin (x2)
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Kittiwake
  • Ringed Plover (x43)
  • Red-breasted Merganser (x6)
  • Twite
  • Red-throated Diver
  • White-fronted Goose (x 1 south)
  • Pale-bellied Brent Goose (x1)
  • SnowGoose (x6)
  • Swallow (x2)
  • Sand Martin (x1)
  • Black-tailed Godwit (x40 south)
  • Goosander (x3 reported)
  • Otter (x2)
  • Red Admiral

23/9/2021

  • Turnstone (x45)
  • Sanderling (x120)
  • Dunlin (x10)
  • Ringed Plover (x80)
  • Redshank
  • Red-breasted Merganser (x8)
  • Great Northern Diver (x2)
  • Eider
  • Manx Shearwater
  • Wigeon (x1)
  • Whimbrel (x1)
  • Curlew (x4)
  • Red-throated Diver (x4)
  • Risso’s Dolphin (male dead on beach)

22/9/2021

  • Semi-palpated Sandpiper (reported)
  • Pink-footed Geese (x7)

21/9/2021

  • Moth Trap: Small Wainscot, Large Wainscot, Large Yellow Underwing, Lunar Underwing, Garden Rose Tortrix, Brindled Ochre
  • Sanderling (x13)
  • Ringed Plover (x25)
  • Wigeon (x4)
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Red-throated Diver (x6)

20/9/2021

  • Merlin (female)
  • Red-throated Diver (x3)
  • Dunlin (x6)
  • Sanderling (x4)
  • Kittiwake
  • Pale-bellied Brent Goose (x1)
  • Curlew (x10)
  • Golden Plover (x1)
  • Wood Pigeon (x2)
  • Manx Shearwater (x6)
  • Sooty Shearwater
  • Great Skua (x2)

19/9/2021

  • Red-throated Diver
  • Great Skua
  • Wigeon (x2)
  • Pink-footed Geese (x13)
  • Red-throated Divers (x15)
  • Common Guillemot (x12)
  • Sanderling (x40)
  • Ringed Plover (x20)
  • White Wagtail
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Kestrel (x2)
  • Sparrowhawk
  • Twite

16/9/2021

  • Sooty Shearwater (from ferry)

15/9/2021

  • Peregrine

14/9/2021

  • White-tailed Eagle (x2)
  • Peregrine

13/9/2021

  • Moth Trap: Square-spot Rustic, Small Wainscot, Antler, Mouse Moth, Ear sp, Grey Chi, Angle Shades, Rosy Rustic, Red-line Quaker, Large Yellow Underwing, Necrodes littoralis (a sexton beetle)

12/9/2021

  • Golden Plover (x13)
  • Greenland Wheatears (a small influx of passage birds)
  • Curlew (x1)

11/9/2021

  • Golden Plover (x3)

10/9/2021

  • Peregrine
  • Sooty Shearwater (from ferry)
  • Minke Whale (from ferry)
  • Common Dolphins (c25 from ferry)

8/9/2021

  • Moth Trap: Small Wainscot, Autumnal Rustic, Square-spot Rustic, Rosy Rustic, Antler, Ear Moth, Black Rustic, Eudonia angustea
  • White-tailed Eagle (x2)

7/9/2021

  • Peregrine (x1+1)
  • Goldcrest
  • Dunlin (x2)
  • Curlew (x3)
  • Irish Ladies-tresses (x1 in flower)
  • Red Admiral (x2)

6/9/2021

  • Common Hawker
  • Pomarine Skua

5/9/2021

  • Moth Trap: Antler, Square-spot Rustic, Anomalous, Ear Moth, Northern Deep-brown Dart, Autumnal Rustic
  • Grass of Parnassus (in flower)
  • Pale Butterwort (in flower)

3/9/2021

  • Hen Harrier (x2 ring-tailed)
  • Sedge Warbler
  • Whimbrel (x1)
  • Fulmar
  • Sanderling (x4)
  • Eider (x13)
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Red-throated Diver (x6)
  • Snow Goose (x6)
  • Frog Orchid
  • Field Gentian

2/9/2021

  • Shrike larder (Dor Beetles impaled on barbed wire but no sighting of the bird itself)
  • Sparrowhawk (recently fledged family group)
  • Peregrine (x2)
  • Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
  • Snipe (x4)

1/9/2021

  • Moth Trap: Angle Shades, Square-spot Rustic, Dark Marbled Carpet, Small Fan-footed Wave, Autumnal Rustic, Mouse Moth, Small Wainscot, Rosy Rustic, Ear Moth, Large Yellow Underwing, Antler, White-line Dart, Heath Rustic, Oblique Carpet, Dark Arches, Northern Deep-brown Dart, Grey Chi, White-shouldered House Moth, Udea lutealis, Eana penziana