{"id":1412,"date":"2022-04-15T14:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.171.192.198\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2022-05-12T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T14:18:02","slug":"april-2022-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"April 2022 &#8211; Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>30\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Angle Shades moth<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>29\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver (x7)<\/li><li>Whimbrel (x2)<\/li><li>Great Skua<\/li><li>Arctic Skua<\/li><li>Linnet (singing in garden)<\/li><li>Twite (singing in garden)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>26\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver (x3)<\/li><li>Tufted Duck (x3 &#8211; new arrivals)<\/li><li>Whimbrel (x14+4+2+1 &#8211; spring passage has started)<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (x2 ring-tails)<\/li><li>Golden Eagle (still around\u2026)<\/li><li>Little Terns (x6+8 &#8211; first of the year)<\/li><li>Cuckoo<\/li><li>Swallows<\/li><li>Sedge Warbler (first of the year)<\/li><li>Blackcap (two singing males)<\/li><li>Danish Scurvy-grass (in flower)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>24\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Golden Eagle <\/strong>(a sub-adult individual) &#8211; our first on the island!<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (several sightings of at least 3 individuals)<\/li><li>Red-throated Diver<\/li><li>Cuckoo<\/li><li>Emperor Moth<\/li><li>Common Heath moth<\/li><li>Moss Carder Bee (ssp agricolae) queen <\/li><li>Marsh Violet (in flower)<\/li><li>Blinks (in flower)<\/li><li>Several fragments of iron-age pottery discovered<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>23\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Red-throated Diver <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>22\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Canada Geese (x7)<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (two separate ring-tails)<\/li><li>Golden Plover (x25+2)<\/li><li>Corncrake<\/li><li>[Great Skua (x4 reported)]<\/li><li>Arctic Skua<\/li><li>Manx Shearwater (several hundred individuals off-shore)<\/li><li>White Wagtail (x4)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>21\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Little Grebe<\/li><li>Cuckoo (first of the year)<\/li><li>Sand Martin (first for the year)<\/li><li>Twite <\/li><li>Chrysolina staphylea (a leaf beetle &#8211; first for Coll)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>20\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hen Harrier (male)<\/li><li>Whimbrel (first of the spring)<\/li><li>Golden Plover (flocks of 40, 30 and then 40)<\/li><li>Canada Goose (x5)<\/li><li>Pheasant (a single female has taken up residence locally)<\/li><li>Twite (impressive flock of 230 birds)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>19\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver <\/li><li>Red-throated Diver<\/li><li>Golden Plover (x3)<\/li><li>Snipe<\/li><li>Manx Shearwater (several hundred moving north)<\/li><li>Swallow (reported)<\/li><li>White Wagtail (x3)<\/li><li>Redwing (a single bird of the Icelandic race)<\/li><li>Twite (a flock of 130)<\/li><li>Small-spotted Catshark (egg-case on beach)<\/li><li>Nursehound (egg-case on beach)<\/li><li>Blonde Ray (egg-case on beach)<\/li><li>Dolphin sp (a small pod close-in)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>18\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Greenland White-fronted Goose (x12)<\/li><li>Teal (x12)<\/li><li>Hen Harrier (male)<\/li><li>Kestrel<\/li><li>Arctic Skua<\/li><li>Golden Plover (x2)<\/li><li>Corncrake (first of the year)<\/li><li>Blonde Ray (egg case on beach)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>15\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver (x3)<\/li><li>Shelduck (x1 north)<\/li><li>Curlew (x1)<\/li><li>Black Guillemot (x3)<\/li><li>Greenland Wheatear (first of the spring)<\/li><li>Willow Warbler (first of the year)<\/li><li>Scots Lovage (leaves)<\/li><li>Common Scurvygrass (in flower)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>14\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Northern Diver (x2)<\/li><li>Barnacle Geese (small flocks leaving)<\/li><li>Manx Shearwater (huge rafts offshore)<\/li><li>Guillemot<\/li><li>Razorbill<\/li><li>Puffin<\/li><li>Twite (x50)<\/li><li>(Orca and Minke Whale reported yesterday)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>4\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Skua (x2 first of year)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (x63)<\/li><li>White-tailed Eagle (x3)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/4\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Peregrine Falcon (female found dead on beach)<\/li><li>Greenfinch (x5)<\/li><li>(Golden Eagle reported locally again!!)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30\/4\/21 Angle Shades moth 29\/4\/21 Great Northern Diver (x7) Whimbrel (x2) Great Skua Arctic Skua Linnet (singing in garden) Twite (singing in garden) 26\/4\/21 Great Northern Diver (x3) Tufted Duck &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-sightings-2022"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}