16/9/2022
- Pink-footed Geese (x15 over)
- Tansy (a new location)
- Pale Butterwort
- Lesser Skullcap (a new location)
15/9/2022
- White-tailed Eagle (a pair of adults)
- Pink-footed Geese (two skeins of 130 & 80 over heading south-east – our first of the autumn)
14/9/2022
- a fireball meteor lit up the valley at 22.00
13/9/2022
- Snow Goose (x4 – regularly only seeing four feral birds now)
- Lapwing (x65)
- Whitethroat
- Mistle Thrush (still present)
12/9/2022
- Kestrel (f)
- Sparrowhawk (f)
- Mistle Thrush (an island rarity)
11/9/2022
- Red-breasted Merganser (x12)
- Hen Harrier (x1 ring-tail)
- Whitethroat
- Mouse moth
- Autumnal Rustic moth
10/9/2022
- Red-throated Diver (x3)
- Hen Harrier (x1 ring-tail)
- Frog Orchid (still some spikes in flower)
8/9/2022
- Snow Goose (x4)
- Sanderling (x22)
- Dunlin (x1)
- Greenshank (over calling)
- Lapwing (x185)
- Frog Orchid (x100+)
- Field Gentian
- Sea Beet (a real Coll rarity!)
- Lyme Grass
- Dune Pansy (oddly in flower in abundance on the machair!)
7/9/2022
- Sanderling (x20)
- Snipe (x2)
- White Wagtail (x2)
- Goldfinch (x22)
- Meadow Brown
- Red Admiral
- Irish Ladies’-tresses (x6 spikes)
- Common Twayblade (rosette)
- Allseed
- Chaffweed
- Isolepis cernua
- Adderstongue Fern
- Gypsywort (at its only Coll location)
- Frog Orchid
- Great Woodrush
6/9/2022
- Heath Rustic moth
- Grey Chi moth
- Oblique Carpet moth
- Autumnal Rustic moth
4/9/2022
- Twite
- Moorhen (x3 – local breeders)
- Grayling butterfly (x2)
- Scot’s Lovage