from MARCH 2021
2021 (best viewed in landscape on mobile phones)
Sighting
Otter
Minke Whale
Sedge Warbler
Corncrake (x2 – they’re back!)
White-fronted Goose (x4)
Teal (x7)
Mute Swan (x2)
Whooper Swan (x3)
Shoveler
Gadwall (a pair)
Tufted Duck
Whimbrel (x3)
Scots Lovage (new site)
Lapwing (chicks everywhere)
Hen Harrier (x3 males)
Mossy Saxifrage (locally abundant)
Pipewort (rosettes developing)
White-tailed Eagle
Kestrel
Hen Harrier (male)
Rue-leaved Saxifrage
Mute Swan (x2)
Hen Harrier (male)
Common Heath moth (first of year)
Marsh Violet
Thale Cress (only Coll location)
Porpoise (x5)
Red-throated Diver (x4)
Cuckoo (new arrivals)
Hawfinch (major rarity!)
Twite (x5)
Barnacle Goose (x120 north)
Little Terns (x15 new for year)
Pink Purslane (new for Coll)
Hen Harrier (male)
Long-tailed Tit
Black-headed Gull (x7)
Eider (x20)
Whimbrel (x8)
Shoveler (x4)
Wigeon (x2)
Black-tailed Godwit (x14)
Golden Plover (x40+60)
Otter (x2)
Great Northern Diver (x25)
Willow Warblers (first of the year)
Green Hairstreak
Common Seal (x75)
Golden Plover (x40)
Dunlin (x6)
Sanderling (x16)
Hen Harrier (a pair)
Golden Plover (x4)
Sand Martin (at colony)
Sea Spleenwort
Shelduck (a pair)
Roseroot (new location)
Hen Harrier (male)
Golden Plover (x5)
Arctic Skua (x1)
White-tailed Eagle (x3)
Common Scurvy-grass
Great Northern Diver (x8 calling)
Black Guillemot (x11)
Eider (x2 pairs)
Red-breasted Merganser (x4 pairs)
Shelduck (x2)
Canada Goose (2 separate individuals)
Peregrine (x2)
Otter (2 separate individuals)
Hen Harrier (male)
Eider (2 pairs)
Barnacle Goose (x150)
Pink-footed Goose (x70 north)
Water Rail
Whooper Swan (x14)
Wood Pigeon (x7 pairs)
Whooper Swan (x16)
Arctic Skua
Bonxie (x 3 in territory)
Red-throated Diver (2 pairs in territory)
Hen Harrier (pair)
Early Whitlowgrass (new location)
White-tailed Eagle
Hart’s-tongue Fern (new location)
Hen Harrier (male)
Redwing (50+)
Chiffchaff
Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
Merlin (cracking male!)
Eider
Great Northern Diver (x3)
Mute swan
Bonxie
Twite
Merlin
Shelduck
Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
Black Guillemot (x2)
Rusty-back Fern (local rarity)
Peacock butterfly (x4)
White-tailed Eagle (x3)
Merlin (female)
Moss Carder Bee (queen)
Bonxie (x2)
Minke Whale (our first of the year)
Manx Shearwaters (north in numbers)
Hart’s-tongue Fern (new location!)
White-tailed Eagle (x2)
Whooper Swan (x16+1)
White-fronted Goose (x100 heading north)
Wood Pigeon
Whooper Swan (x16 north)
Great Northern Diver (x3)
Golden Plover (parties totalling 70)
Barnacle Goose (x120 heading north)
Wheatear
Redwing (x60)
Sand Martin (x2)
Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
Redwing (x3 Icelandic race)
Bonxie (x2)
Barnacle Geese (moving north)
Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
Wheatear (first of the year)
Jack Snipe
Golden Plover
Whooper Swan (x2)
Red-throated Diver
Fulmar (exploring nesting sites)
Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
Peregrine (a pair displaying)
Redwing (x3 Icelandic race)
Red Chestnut moth (x3 in trap)
Canada Goose (x19)
White-fronted Goose (70)
Wood Pigeon (x3)
Whooper Swan (big movement north)
Bilberry (rare on Coll)
White-tailed Eagle
Hen Harrier (male)
Belted Beauty moth
Long-tailed Tit
Mottled Grey moth (in trap)
Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
Otter
Mute Swan
White-fronted Goose (plenty still about)
An early Bonxie
Sea Spleenwort
Great Northern Diver (x3)
Date
29/4/2021
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21/4/2021
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11/4/2021
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9/4/2021
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7/4/2021
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31/3/2021
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13/3/2021
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12/3/2021
5/3/2021
2/3/2021