FEBRUARY 2024 – SIGHTINGS

FEBRUARY 2024 – SIGHTINGS

We’re off island again now until April. Daily reporting will recommence then.

26/02/2024

  • Great Northern Diver (x4)
  • Canada Goose (x9 early spring arrivals)
  • Shelduck (the pair from earlier in the week still around Loch Eatharna)

25/02/2024

  • White-fronted Goose (small flocks of x4, x12, x4 and x7)
  • Blue Tit (still frequenting the local mixed plantation)
  • Mistle Thrush (a Coll rarity – I hope it sticks around and starts singing)
  • Redwing (x10)

20/02/2024

  • White-fronted Goose (a small flock of 10 birds)
  • Shelduck (x2 our first of the spring)
  • White-tailed Eagle (a majestic adult bird)
  • Sparrowhawk (daily this week around the village)
  • Lesser Black-backed Gulls (x4 – new spring arrivals)
  • Grey Herons (in the heronry)
  • Blue Tit (a singing bird – a real island rarity)

19/02/2024 (we’re back on Coll but only for a week!)

  • Whooper Swan (x3 on our local loch)
  • Greenland White-fronted Goose (flocks of 30 and 4 today)
  • Skylark (strong passage today – first arrivals were 21 Feb last year and 25 Feb in 2022)

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