Recent Sightings

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)

Sighting

Mistle Thrush

Redwing (Icelandic race x6)

Great Northern Diver (x2)

Common Dolphin (x15)

Fieldfare (x30)

Whooper Swan

Kestrel

Merlin

Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)

Hen Harrier (male)

Whooper Swan (x5)

Yellow-browed Warbler (x2)

White-tailed Eagle

Barnacle Goose (x32)

Whooper Swan (x36)

Pink-footed Goose (x63)

Barnacle Goose (x76)

Hen Harrier (male)

Otter (x2)

Redwing (Icelandic race x9)

Ruby Tiger Moth (caterpillar)

Hen Harrier (male)

Yellow-browed Warbler

Golden Eagle

Otter (x2)

White-tailed Eagle

Golden Eagle

Barnacle Goose (x3)

Lesser Water-plantain

Frog Orchid

Swallow (x2)

Field Gentian

Sparrowhawk (male)

Red-throated Diver (x2)

Common Dolphin (x5)

Bar-tailed Godwit (x2)

White-tailed Eagle (x2)

Great Northern Diver

Pale-bellied Brent Goose (x5)

Wheatear (Greenland race x3)

Yellow-browed Warbler

White-tailed Eagle

Sparrowhawk (x5)

Pink-footed Goose (x2)

White-tailed Eagle

Drinker Moth (caterpillar)

Merlin

Pink-footed Goose (x1)

Whooper Swan

Great Northern Diver

Common Frog

Kestrel

Short-eared Owl

Frog Orchid (x5)

Peregrine (x2)

Brindled Ochre Moth (x2)

Black Guillemot

Green shank

Red-throated Diver

Widgeon (x2)

Black-headed Gull

Greenshank (x14)

White-line Dart Moth

Cut-leaved Dead-nettle

Canada Goose (x2)

Merlin

Irish Ladies-Tresses

Field Gentian

Sea Aster

Greenshank (x3)

Striped Twin-spot Carpet Moth

Sand Martin (x10)

Arctic Skua (x2)

Otter (x2)

Knot

Whimbrel

Merlin

Great Skua x10

Great Skua

Whimbrel

Whooper Swan

Green Sandpiper

Peregrine (with ravens)

Aceria geranii (the Eriophyid gall mite)

Pomarine skua (dark phase)

Knot (juv)

Merlin

Hen Harrier (ring tailed)

Sparrow hawk (female)

Corncrake

Red-throated Diver (pair)

Common Dolphin (x6)

Basking Shark (2)

Dark Green Fritillary

Pipewort (in abundance)

Knot Grass Moth (caterpillar)

Frog Orchid

Basking Shark (x4)