Wildsmiths

Recent Sightings

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)

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