30/11/2023
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x29)
- White-tailed Eagle (reported – the first for a while)
29/11/2023
- Whooper Swan (appears to have settled on our loch for the duration)
- Long-tailed Tit (x2 in the village)
27/11/2023
- Whooper Swan (a single bird wandering from loch to loch across the island over the last few days)
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x13+19)
- Teal (x16 but our returning Tuftie appears not to have stuck around)
- Kestrel
- Sparrowhawk
23/11/2023
- Woodcock (our first of the autumn)
22/11/2023
- Tufted Duck (our regular returning male has arrived on the local loch)
21/11/2023
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x13)
- Curlew (x15)
- Dunnock
- Redwing (x9)
19/11/2023
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x39)
- Barnacle Goose (x650)
- Kestrel (x1)
- Merlin (x1 male)
- Golden Plover (x3 – a very late record for what is usually a passage species here)
- Ringed Plover (x50)
- Snipe (x1 with Lapwings)
- Curlew (x3)
- Fieldfare (x6 – our first of the autumn, having been away in late October when they usually pass through)
- Blue Tit (x2 with Long-tailed Tits in roadside scrub – a very rare wanderer to the isles!)
- Long-tailed Tit (x3 with the Blue Tits in roadside scrub)
- Parrot Waxcap (a gorgeous rare mushroom – only the third record from Coll)
- Meadow Waxcap
15/11/2023
- Canada Goose (x2 with local Greylags – an unusually late record, they are more of a summer visitor to the islands)
- Great Northern Diver (x2)
- Ringed Plover (x100)
- Sanderling (x45)
- Turnstone (x33)
- Dunlin (x1)
- Oystercatcher (x10)
- Curlew
- Meadow Pipits (seemingly everywhere today – a late pulse of passage birds?)
- Scandinavian Rock Pipit (a distinctive individual on the local beach)
- Greater Tussock Sedge Carex paniculata (my first record from Coll. Really pleased to have tracked it down at last – surprisingly difficult to locate among the Molinia tussocks!)
12/11/2023
- Long-eared Owl (x1 at dusk in new location by young plantation)
11/11/2023
- Whooper Swan (x2 in off the sea)
- Wigeon (x2 on our local loch)
- Red-throated Diver
- Teal (x10 – numbers slowly building)
- Kestrel (male)
- Redshank
- Sanderling (12)
- Ringed Plover (x25)
- Turnstone
- Curlew (x20)
- Kittiwake (x100+ close in to shore)
- Twite (x2)
- Otter (signs of an adult and 2 pups on local beach and hunkering down in the dunes)
10/11/2023
- Sparrowhawk (juv female)
- Redwing (x12)
09/11/2023
- Redwings (c100 on the roadside fencelines at Cliad)