January 2023 – Sightings

January 2023 – Sightings

19/1/23

  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (x28)

18/1/23

  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (x32)

16/1/23

  • Little Auk (found on roadside, unable to fly. Returned to take his chances by the sea.)
  • Mute Swan (x2)
  • Teal (x14)
  • Moorhen (x2)
  • White-tailed Eagle
  • Gannet
  • Ringed Plover (x65)
  • Sanderling (x32)
  • Turnstone (x4)
  • Dunlin (x1)
  • Oystercatcher (x30)
  • Raven (x2)
  • Hooded Crow (x4)
  • Rock Pipit (x5)
  • Common Seal (x28)

13/1/23

  • Agonopterix yeatiana (a micro moth hibernating in our thatched roof)

8/1/23

  • Jackdaw (a single immature bird on the roadside – a Coll rarity)

6/1/23

  • Great Northern Diver (x4)
  • Kittiwake (juv)
  • Cormorant
  • Moorhen (x2)
  • Teal (x16)

4/1/23

  • Red-throated Diver
  • Great Northern Diver
  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (x21)
  • Barnacle Geese (flocks of 400, 90, 65 and 2!)
  • Peregrine (a pair at a traditional site)
  • Turnstone (x1)
  • Sanderling (x2)
  • Fieldfare (flocks of 10 and 6)

2/1/23

  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (flocks of 54 and 28)
  • Sparrowhawk (an adult male bird hunting)
  • Goldcrest (x3)

1/1/23

  • Great Northern Diver
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Mute Swan (2 still on our local loch)
  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (x25)
  • Woodcock (x3 flushed from a moorland gully)
  • Meadow Pipits (a scarce winter species here)
  • Twite (2 flocks of 15 and 20 birds)
  • Common Cottongrass (an unseasonal flowering specimen)

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