12/01/2024 (This is our last day on Coll for a few weeks. See you next month.)
- White-tailed Eagle (an immature individual)
- Merlin (a cracking female hunting close to the roadside)
- Chaffinch (a flock of 30 birds together in the grounds at An Cridhe)
10/01/2024
- Whooper Swan (x3)
- Snow Goose (x5 – our resident flock)
- Barnacle Goose (x900)
- Wigeon (x10)
- Red-breasted Merganser (a smart drake)
- Great Northern Diver
- Curlew (x70)
- Golden Plover (x50 – an unusual mid-winter record for Coll)
- COOT (a skulking individual in the reeds at the Canal Loch. The first record here since 2011.)
- Skylark (x1 an unusual winter record or an early returner)
- Otter (fishing close in along the Crossapol shore)
09/01/2024
- Whooper Swan (x1)
- Greenland White-fronted Geese (x40)
- Oystercatcher (x15)
- Ringed Plover (x60)
- Sanderling (x40)
- Turnstone (x12)
- Redshank (x1+3)
- Curlew (x20)
- Meadow Pipit (unusually there have been a few of these around this winter)
- (the Barn Owl that arrived last summer is being regularly reported still)
- Greater Tussock Sedge (Carex paniculata) is doing very well at its only Coll station
07/01/2024
- Whooper Swan (a long-staying individual)
- Great Northern Diver
- Teal (x16)
- Ringed Plover (x17)
- Meadow Pipit (scarce here during the winter months)
- By-the-Wind-Sailors (a ‘wreck’ of tiny individuals on our local beach)
- Cuttlefish (x2 – an uncommon sighting here)
- a fresh cache of Spotted Cowrie shells
06/01/2024
- Woodcock (x3)
04/01/2024
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x30 at Cliad roadside)