{"id":1726,"date":"2023-08-03T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.171.192.198\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:06:27","slug":"august-2023-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"August 2023 &#8211; Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>16\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arctic Skua (x3 over moorland)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Northern Eggar (a big fat caterpillar!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chevron moth, Grayling, Peacock and Red Admiral (a good day for lepidoptera!) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pale Butterworth (a tiny plant in flower) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>15\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Red-throated Diver (a barking flyover still feeding young at a moorland lochan)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Skua <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wheatear (a few still around)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White Wagtails (return migrants)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sedge Warbler (feeding young in our garden)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twite (x4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grayling butterflies (x2 on the rocky shoreline near our cottage)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ling Heather, Bell Heather and Cross-leaved Heath (white-flowered forms of all three) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>10\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hen Harrier (ring-tail)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Volucella bombylans<\/em> (a bumblebee mimic hoverfly) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Abia nitens<\/em> (a sawfly larva basking on a Devil&#8217;s-bit Scabious Flower &#8211; a first for Coll!) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>07\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long-tailed Tit (not a common bird out here)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dark Green Fritillary (still a few on the machair)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Large Heath<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Catoptria margaritella <\/em>(having seen our first a week ago we&#8217;re now seeing them on every moorland walk!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heath Bumblebee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moss Carder Bee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>06\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Juvenile Snow Goose (reported with x4 adults &#8211; it seems our feral birds may have bred for the first time in several years)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Whimbrel (a return passage soloist)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kittiwake (c500 on shoreline rocks)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Little Tern (flying over and calling in company with Arctic and Common Terns) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Juvenile Cuckoo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Woodpigeon (x3 together &#8211; unheard of Hebridean delights!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>01\/08\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><strong>Catoptria margaritella <\/strong><\/em>(our first record of this possibly quite common day-flying moorland grass-moth!) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16\/08\/2023 15\/08\/2023 10\/08\/2023 09\/08\/2023 07\/08\/2023 06\/08\/2023 01\/08\/2023<\/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":[69],"tags":[75,8,9],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-sightings-2023","tag-75","tag-recent","tag-sightings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","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=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}