September 2023 – Sightings

September 2023 – Sightings

29/09/2023

  • Gannet
  • Curlew
  • Kittiwake
  • Linnet (x40)
  • Twite (x70)
  • Pedunculate Oak (a cluster of tiny plants growing on a rocky outcrop out of the range of the local sheep)
  • two species of Isolepis (I. cernua Slender Club-rush and I. setacea Bristle Club-rush)

21/09/2023

  • Snipe
  • Dunnock
  • a fall of Song Thrushes, Meadow Pipits, Goldcrests and Chaffinches

19/09/2023

  • Red-breasted Merganser (x6)
  • Curlew (x12)

17/09/2023

  • Galerula tanaceti (a fat leaf beetle – new for Coll!)
  • Northern Deep-brown Dart
  • Small Wainscot
  • Lunar Underwing
  • Autumnal Rustic

16/09/2023

  • Hen Harrier (ring-tail)
  • Lesser Redpoll (x5)

14/09/2023

  • Merlin (female through our cottage garden)

13/09/2023

  • a Gyr Falcon/Saker (hybrid with jesses around the village in recent days – set the pulse racing. Finally caught in hotel beer garden!)
  • Northern Deep-brown Dart
  • Black Rustic
  • Lunar Underwing
  • Autumnal Rustic
  • Angle Shades

12/09/2023

  • Pink-footed Goose (a skein of 70 – our first of the autumn)
  • Turnstone (x20 on local beach)
  • Sanderling (x20 on local beach)
  • Ringed Plover (x20 on local beach)
  • Golden Plover (a single bird piping over!)

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