July 2022 – Sightings

29/7/22

• Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
• Curlew
• Great Skua
• Arctic Skua
• Pheasant (the last one on Coll?)
• Cuckoo (recently got by a Sparrowhawk)
• [Long-eared Owl (reported)]
• juvenile Robin (recently fledged)
• The Great Tachinid Fly (Tachina grossa)
• Alder Tongue Gall (a striking fungus on Alder trees)
• Red Admiral
• Common Valerian (only known site on Coll)

28/7/22

• Red-throated Diver (x4)
• Great Skua
• Arctic Skua
• 8 Bottlenose Dolphins

18/7/22

• Red-throated Diver
• Eider (with 2 ducklings)
• Hen Harrier
• Curlew
• Greenshank
• Arctic Skua (x2)

17/7/22

• Canada Goose (x6)
• Curlew (x8)
• Whimbrel (x1)
• Wood Pigeon
• Volucella bombylans ssp plumata (a bee mimic hoverfly)

13/7/22

• Red-breasted Merganser (a crèche of 11 ducklings)
• Peregrine (1 juv)
• Curlew (x8)
• Pheasant (a female)
• Grasshopper Warbler (reeling)
• Pale Butterwort

10/7/22

• Red-throated Diver
• Hen Harrier
• Peregrine (x2)
• Wood Pigeon
• Twite (x4)
• Bottlenose Dolphin (x9)
• Otter (x2)
• The Miller (moth on ferry!)

9/7/22

• Great Northern Diver
• Red-throated Diver
• Whimbrel
• Whitethroat
• Sedge Warbler
• Twite
• Tachina grossa (a parasitic fly)
• Northern Marsh Orchid (x2)
• Lesser Butterfly Orchid
• Heath Fragrant Orchid
• Lesser Water Plantain

8/7/22

• Great Northern Diver
• Red-throated Diver
• Hen Harrier (male and x2 females)
• Peregrine (female)
• Sparrowhawk
• Arctic Skua
• Twite (family group)
• Painted Lady
• Dark Green Fritillary
• True Lovers’ Knot (moth)
• July Highflyer (moth)
• Gold Spot (moth)
• Garden Tiger (moth)
• Yellowshell (moth)
• Common Hawker (dragonfly)
• Common Darter
• Northern Colletes (bee)
• Field Pansy

7/7/22

• Red-throated Diver
• White-tailed Eagle
• Hen Harrier
• Sparrowhawk (male)
• Arctic Tern
• Great Skua
• Common Seals (pupping)
• Lesser Butterfly Orchid
• Heath Fragrant Orchid
• Pipewort
• Pale Butterwort
• Mountain Everlasting
• Compass Jellyfish
• Moon Jellyfish

6/7/22

• Hen Harrier (male, female and young male)
• Corncrake (a single male calling)
• Cuckoo (the last adult of the year)
• Sedge Warbler
• Brown Hare
• Compass Jellyfish
• By-the-wind Sailors
• Sea Bean/Sea Heart
• Eelgrass

5/7/22

• Red-throated Diver
• Ringed Plover (with 2 juvs)
• Wood Pigeon (an island rarity)
• Six-spot Burnet
• By-the-wind Sailors
• Sea Bristle-tails

4/7/22

• Red-throated Diver
• Eider (x2)
• Red-breasted Merganser (a crèche of 8 ducklings)
• Peregrine
• Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
• Bar-tailed Godwit (x1)
• Curlew (x7)
• Arctic Skua (x7)
• Greenfinch (x2 fledged young)

2/7/22

• Red-throated Diver
• Arctic Skua (pale phase)

1/7/22

• Arctic Skua (x7)
• Peregrine
• Black-headed Gull (x16 a large gathering)
• Dark Marbled Carpet (moth)
• Magpie (moth – a huge emergence)
• Straw Dot (a migrant moth)
• Small Dotted Buff (moth)
• Garden Tiger (moth)
• Frog Orchid