{"id":1792,"date":"2024-04-03T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.171.192.198\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:34:24","slug":"january-2024-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"JANUARY 2024 &#8211; SIGHTINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>12\/01\/2024 (This is our last day on Coll for a few weeks. See you next month.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>White-tailed Eagle (an immature individual)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Merlin (a cracking female hunting close to the roadside)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chaffinch (a flock of 30 birds together in the grounds at An Cridhe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>10\/01\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whooper Swan (x3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Snow Goose (x5 &#8211; our resident flock)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barnacle Goose (x900)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wigeon (x10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red-breasted Merganser (a smart drake)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Northern Diver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curlew (x70)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golden Plover (x50 &#8211; an unusual mid-winter record for Coll)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>COOT<\/strong> (a skulking individual in the reeds at the Canal Loch. The first record here since 2011.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skylark (x1 an unusual winter record or an early returner) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Otter (fishing close in along the Crossapol shore) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>09\/01\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whooper Swan (x1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (x40)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oystercatcher (x15)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ringed Plover (x60)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanderling (x40)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turnstone (x12)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Redshank (x1+3) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curlew (x20)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meadow Pipit (unusually there have been a few of these around this winter)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(the Barn Owl that arrived last summer is being regularly reported still)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greater Tussock Sedge (<em>Carex paniculata<\/em>) is doing very well at its only Coll station<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>07\/01\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whooper Swan (a long-staying individual)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Northern Diver <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teal (x16)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ringed Plover (x17)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meadow Pipit (scarce here during the winter months)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By-the-Wind-Sailors (a &#8216;wreck&#8217; of tiny individuals on our local beach)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cuttlefish (x2 &#8211; an uncommon sighting here)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a fresh cache of Spotted Cowrie shells <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>06\/01\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Woodcock (x3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>04\/01\/2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Goose (x30 at Cliad roadside)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/01\/2024 (This is our last day on Coll for a few weeks. See you next month.) 10\/01\/2024 09\/01\/2024 07\/01\/2024 06\/01\/2024 04\/01\/2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[77,8,9],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-sightings-2024","tag-77","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\/1792","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}