31/05/2023
- Hen Harrier (a ring-tailed juvenile male)
30/05/2023
- Sparrowhawk
21/05/2023
- Minke Whale (from Arinagour)
20/05/2023
- Great Northern Diver
- Shelduck (x3 pairs – one with x3 ducklings)
- Dunlin (x10 artica race)
- Sanderling (x5)
- Turnstone (x5)
- Golden Plover (x16 fly over)
- Merlin (male – a nice spring record)
- Hen Harrier (male)
19/05/2023
- Red-throated Diver
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Dunlin (x20 + 12)
- Turnstone (x6)
- Black-headed Gull
- Little Tern (x4)
- Flea Sedge
- Pignut
- Early Purple Orchid
17/05/2023
- Arctic Skua (x2)
- Chiffchaff (a passage bird singing weakly in the local plantation)
- Sedge Warbler (x2 singing males locally)
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Twite (seven birds around the village)
- Greenfinch (a pair new in in our garden, the male singing boldly)
16/05/2023
- Eider (x6)
- Dunlin (x15)
- Sanderling (x10)
- Ringed Plover (x70)
- Little Tern
- Corncrake (x5 calling males away from the usual places)
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Common Carpet moth
- Cryptocephalus aureolus (a tiny electric green flower beetle)
13/05/2023
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Merlin (a female again same place as two days ago)
- Corncrake (x6)
- Whitethroat
11/05/2023
- Eider
- Curlew
- Hen Harrier
- Merlin (a female hunting)
- Arctic Skua
- Corncrake (x8)
- Woodpigeon (a pair – not a regular bird on Coll)
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Goldcrest
- Greenfinch (x2 pairs across the island)
- Green Hairstreak
08/05/2023
- Canada Goose (a pair)
- Hen Harrier (a male hunting)
- Dunlin (x3)
- Golden Plover (x8)
- Twite (a pair in the road)
- Minke Whale (from ferry towards Mull)
- Juniper (a huge ‘tree’ growing down a cliff-face)
07/05/2023
- Great Northern Diver
- Whimbrel (x7)
- Hen Harrier (a pair)
- Black-headed Gull
- Little Tern
- Corncrake (x5)
- Whitethroat
- Greenfinch
- Twite
- Silver Y (a migrant moth)
- Grey Seal
- Basking Shark (in Crossapol Bay. Looks like it may be a great year for these leviathans…)
- Silpha tyrolensis (a rare carrion beetle in black and brass whose range is restricted to Coll and Tiree)
- Early Purple Orchids (the first orchids of the spring)
- Dune Pansy
- Spring Squill
- Taraxacum obliquum (a very rare species of Dandelion growing in abundance on the machair)
06/05/2023
- Great Northern Diver (x2)
- Red-throated Diver (x2+2)
- Teal (x2 pairs on a moorland loch)
- Eider
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Whimbrel (x5)
- Great Skua (x2)
- Arctic Skua (x5)
- Woodpigeon
- Dunnock
- Chiffchaff
- Whitethroat
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Green Tiger Beetles
- Eristalis intricaria (a new dronefly for Coll?)
- Northern Eggar (a moth caterpillar)
- Orange-tip (a butterfly not knowingly recorded on Coll previously)
- Marsh Violet
- Bog Beacon (a rare aquatic fungus)
05/05/2023
- Great Northern Diver
- Whimbrel (x1+2+2)
- Sparrowhawk (x2 migrant females)
- Arctic Tern
- Little Tern
- Grasshopper Warbler
04/05/2023
- Great Northern Diver
- Red-throated Diver (a pair)
- Shelduck (x2)
- Dunlin (x10+25)
- Sanderling (x3)
- Whimbrel (x13+2)
- Golden Plover (x7)
- Honey Buzzard (a dark juvenile bird low over the village late afternoon!)
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Sparrowhawk (a female)
- Corncrake
- Guillemots (x2 in the bay)
- Dunnock (x2)
- White Wagtail
- Greenfinch (x2)
03/05/2023
- Golden Plover (x3 passage birds)
- Great Skua
- Black-headed Gull
- Common Tern
- Arctic Tern
- Harbour Porpoise
02/05/2023 – what a day!
- Long-tailed Skua (x1 adult bird low over village)
- Little Gull (an adult with Common Gulls from the ferry in the Sound of Mull)
- House Martin (x3 passage birds in the village,less than annual on Coll)
- Basking Shark (one from the ferry between Mull and Coll)
- Minke Whale (one from the ferry between Mull and Coll)