{"id":1761,"date":"2023-11-28T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.171.192.198\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T10:44:19","slug":"november-2023-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"November 2023 &#8211; Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>30\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Goose (x29)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White-tailed Eagle (reported &#8211; the first for a while)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>29\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whooper Swan (appears to have settled on our loch for the duration)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Long-tailed Tit <\/strong>(x2 in the village)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>27\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whooper Swan (a single bird wandering from loch to loch across the island over the last few days)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Goose (x13+19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teal (x16 but our returning Tuftie appears not to have stuck around)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kestrel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sparrowhawk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>23\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Woodcock<\/strong> (our first of the autumn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>22\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tufted Duck<\/strong> (our regular returning male has arrived on the local loch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>21\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Goose (x13)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curlew (x15)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dunnock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Redwing (x9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>19\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Goose (x39)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barnacle Goose (x650)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kestrel (x1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Merlin<\/strong> (x1 male)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Golden Plover<\/strong> (x3 &#8211; a very late record for what is usually a passage species here)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ringed Plover (x50)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Snipe (x1 with Lapwings)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curlew (x3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fieldfare (x6 &#8211; our first of the autumn, having been away in late October when they usually pass through)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Blue Tit <\/strong>(x2 with Long-tailed Tits in roadside scrub &#8211; a very rare wanderer to the isles!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Long-tailed Tit<\/strong> (x3 with the Blue Tits in roadside scrub)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Parrot Waxcap<\/strong> (a gorgeous rare mushroom &#8211; only the third record from Coll)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meadow Waxcap <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>15\/11\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Canada Goose<\/strong> (x2 with local Greylags &#8211; an unusually late record, they are more of a summer visitor to the islands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Northern Diver (x2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ringed Plover (x100)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanderling (x45)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turnstone (x33)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dunlin (x1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oystercatcher (x10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curlew<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meadow Pipits (seemingly everywhere today &#8211; a late pulse of passage birds?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scandinavian Rock Pipit (a distinctive individual on the local beach)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Greater Tussock Sedge<\/strong> <em>Carex paniculata<\/em> (my first record from Coll. 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