February 2022 – Sightings

28/2/22

• Whooper Swan (x10)
• Greenland White-fronted Geese (x7)
• Hen Harrier (male)
• Woodcock (x1)

27/2/22

• Skylark (a flock of 7 moving south)

25/2/22

• Greenland White-fronted Geese (x8)
• Peregrine (two separate individuals)
• Skylark (x5 first of the spring)
• Goldcrest (x5 singing)

24/2/22

• Turnstone (x29)
• Ringed Plover (x27)

21/2/22

• Hen Harrier (male)
• Greenland White-fronted Goose (x8)
• Guillemot (x2)
• Kittiwake (a steady passage north)
• Great Northern Diver
• Redwing

19/2/22

• Reed Buntings (a single flock of 18 birds!)
• Greenfinch (unusual on the island)
• Goldcrest (x3 in song)

18/2/22

• White-tailed Eagle (two birds reported recently)
• Cormorant
• Red-breasted Merganser (x5)
• Redshank (x5)
• Grey Seal

16/2/22

• Greenland White-fronted Goose (x33)
• Red-breasted Merganser (a pair)
• Woodcock
• Goldcrest (singing)

14/2/22

• Herring Gull (an unusual flock of 70 birds)
• Canada Goose (x4 very mobile – our first spring arrivals?)

13/2/22

• Greenland White-fronted Geese (x7)
• Red-breasted Merganser (x4 – 3 drakes)
• Great Northern Diver (x3)
• Black Guillemot
• Sanderling (x15)
• Ringed Plover (x60)
• Turnstone (x33)
• Woodcock (x7)
• Lesser Black-backed Gull (first of 2022)
• SNOW BUNTING (x2 on the machair)

11/2/22

• Great Northern Diver (x1)
• Guillemot (x2)
• Gannet (x1)
• Greenland White-fronted Goose (x7)
• Teal (x16)
• Curlew (x14)
• Turnstone (x9)
• Oystercatcher (x18)
• Common Gull (x47)
• Fulmar (freshly dead on strand line)

10/2/22

• Otter (x2)
• Great Northern Diver (x1)
• Gannet (x1)
• Peregrine (juv male)
• Oystercatcher (x28)
• Sanderling (x15)
• Ringed Plover (x45)
• Turnstone (x4)
• Twite (x30)
• Brown Hare (x4)
• Common Seal (x48)

9/2/22

• Great Northern Diver (x1)
• Grey Heron (x14 including 12 at nesting site)
• Barnacle Geese (two flocks of 20 and 87 away from usual areas)
• Snipe (x1)
• Curlew (x7)
• Redshank (x1)

8/2/22

• Buzzard (x3)
• Teal (x8)
• Dunnock (x1)
• Woodcock (x3)
• Pipefish (in the dunes!)

2/2/22

• Red-breasted Merganser (drake on sea)
• Snipe
• Great Northern Diver (x6)
• Merlin
• Sanderling (x10)
• Ringed Plover (x43)
• Turnstone (x4)
• Lapwing (x33)
• Curlew (x2)
• Common Seal (x90 hauled-up on rocks)
• three separate sets of otter prints

1/2/22

• Curlew (x51)
• Snow Goose (x6)
• Shag (several pairs on breeding cliffs)
• Sea Spleenwort (in abundance)