November 2022 – Sightings

November 2022 – Sightings

30/11/2022

  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (x25)
  • White-tailed Eagle (an adult bird terrorising the local Greylags!)
  • Curlew (x6)

29/11/2022

  • Great Northern Diver (x4)
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Greenland White-fronted Geese (x65)
  • Whooper Swans (x8)
  • Dunlin (a single bird with Ringed Plovers)
  • Sanderling (x40)
  • Turnstone (x5)
  • Redwings
  • Fieldfares

28/11/2022

  • Great Northern Diver (x4)
  • Red-throated Diver (x3)
  • Mute Swans (2 still around)
  • Whooper Swan (a lone juvenile)
  • Greenland White-fronted Geese
  • Barnacle Goose (c850)
  • Snow Goose (4 local feral birds)
  • Pintail (a single female)
  • Wigeon (x20)
  • Bar-tailed Godwit (x2)
  • Lapwings (x70)
  • Snipe (x3)
  • Woodcock (x1)
  • Hen Harrier
  • Redwings
  • Fieldfares
  • Hedgehog (a late individual – looked well-fed)

25/11/2022

  • Peregrine (a female hunting in dreich weather)

22/11/2022

  • Mute Swan (two birds still on local loch)
  • White-fronted Goose (a single flock of 50 feeding in the dairy fields)
  • Kestrel
  • Fieldfare (small parties)
  • Redwing (larger parties)
  • Jackdaw (one at least still around)
  • Twite (now 20 birds in our local flock)
  • Otter (fresh tracks on our local beach)

21/11/2022

  • Mute Swan (x2)
  • Teal (x12 – numbers slowly climbing)
  • White-fronted Goose (x19)
  • Tufted Duck (female-type – a different individual to the adult male we’ve had since the 11 Nov – which has now moved on!)
  • Redwing (x6)
  • Jackdaw (a single bird – the last of a party of 70 that arrived in late October!)
  • Twite (two small flocks of 6 and 10)
  • Snow Bunting (a single flyover bird)

18/11/2022

  • Mute Swan (a pair on our local loch – the first since March 2021)
  • Teal (x4 – numbers slowly building on our local loch)
  • Mallard (x12)
  • Woodcock
  • Fieldfare (x30)

16/11/2022

  • White-tailed Eagle (a juvenile low over our cottage)
  • Hen Harrier

15/11/2022

  • Tufted Duck (the drake still around)
  • Redwing (x50)

14/11/2022

  • Jack Snipe (first of the autumn)

13/11/2022

  • Tufted Duck (single male still around)
  • Teal (still just the two)
  • Redwing (x10)

12/11/2022

  • Woodcock (in the village)

11/11/2022

  • Tufted Duck (a single male new in)
  • Teal (a pair – first of the autumn on our local loch)
  • Kestrel

9/11/2022

  • Woodcock (on the road at night)
  • Hen Harrier (male)

8/11/2022

  • Great Northern Diver (x4)
  • Cormorant (x3 incl 1 juv)
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Sanderling (x35)
  • Ringed Plover (x85)
  • Turnstone (x35)
  • Dunlin (x3)
  • Curlew (x9)
  • Redshank (x4)
  • Woodcock (first of the autumn!)
  • Otter (fresh prints)

3/11/2022

  • Great Northern Diver (x3)
  • Red-throated Diver
  • Canada Geese (x3)
  • Ringed Plover (x100)
  • Sanderling (x40)
  • Dunlin (x1)
  • Turnstone (x5)
  • Brown Hare
  • Otter (prints)
  • Lyme Grass (new station)

1/11/2022

  • White-fronted Goose (x22)
  • Mistle Thrush (hanging around with the Redwings in the village – a Hebridean rarity!)
  • Redwings (still plenty around)
  • Fieldfare (just the one individual today as they pass through)

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