Recent Sightings - 2022
December 2022 – Sightings
31/12/2022
- Jackdaw (a juvenile on a chimney breast at Clabbach – the last of a flock which visited Coll in the autumn)
30/12/2022
- Golden Plover (a flock of c15 – an unusual winter record)
22/12/2022
- Harlequin Duck(female/immature reported while we were off-island – a fantastic find by our local RSPB warden)
13/12/2022
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x28)
- Redwings
- Fieldfares
11/12/2022
- Great Northern Divers (x4)
10/12/2022
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x28)
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Jackdaw (just the one this mornng)
9/12/2022
November 2022 – Sightings
30/11/2022
- Greenland White-fronted Geese (x25)
- White-tailed Eagle(an adult bird terrorising the local Greylags!)
- Curlew (x6)
29/11/2022
- Great Northern Diver (x4)
- Red-throated Diver
- Greenland White-fronted Geese (x65)
- Whooper Swans (x8)
- Dunlin (a single bird with Ringed Plovers)
- Sanderling (x40)
- Turnstone (x5)
- Redwings
- Fieldfares
28/11/2022
- Great Northern Diver (x4)
- Red-throated Diver (x3)
- Mute Swans (2 still around)
- Whooper Swan (a lone juvenile)
- Greenland White-fronted Geese
- Barnacle Goose (c850)
- Snow Goose (4 local feral birds)
- Pintail (a single female)
- Wigeon (x20)
- Bar-tailed Godwit(x2)
- Lapwings (x70)
- Snipe (x3)
- Woodcock (x1)
- Hen Harrier
- Redwings
- Fieldfares
- Hedgehog (a late individual – looked well-fed)
25/11/2022
October 2022 – Sightings
30/10/2022
- White-fronted Goose (x9)
- Merlin
- Redwings
- Fieldfares
29/10/2022
- Great Northern Diver (x3)
- Sooty Shearwater (a single bird from Oban-Coll ferry)
22/10/2022
- Merlin
- Hen Harrier
21/10/2022
- Whooper Swan
- Merlin
- Sparrowhawk
- Redwings (huge flocks all over the island – largest single count x350)
- Fieldfare (x65)
- Mistle Thrush(x3 with Redwings – an island rarity)
- Snow Buntings(a flock of 16 feeding avidly on Bell Heather seeds)
20/10/2022
- Great Northern Diver (x4)
- Whooper Swan (x6)
- Hen Harrier (a male and a ring-tail)
- Sanderling (x36)
- Dunlin (x2)
- Turnstone (x7)
- Redshank (x1)
- Curlew (x2)
- Redwings (several flocks – largest 80)
- Rook(a stonking island record!)
- Grey Seal (pup on beach – 3 adults in the sea close by)
- Upright Hedge Parsley(the first modern record for the island!)
19/10/2022
September 2022 – Sightings
16/9/2022
- Pink-footed Geese (x15 over)
- Tansy (a new location)
- Pale Butterwort
- Lesser Skullcap (a new location)
15/9/2022
- White-tailed Eagle (a pair of adults)
- Pink-footed Geese (two skeins of 130 & 80 over heading south-east – our first of the autumn)
14/9/2022
- a fireball meteor lit up the valley at 22.00
13/9/2022
- Snow Goose (x4 – regularly only seeing four feral birds now)
- Lapwing (x65)
- Whitethroat
- Mistle Thrush (still present)
12/9/2022
August 2022 – Sightings
31/08/22
- Red-throated Diver (x4)
- Twite (x4)
- Grayling
- Field Gentian
- Grass of Parassus (everywhere!)
- Biting Stonecrop
- Frog Orchid
- [Basking Shark (reported)]
23/08/22
- Red-breasted Merganser (x14)
- Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
- Chaffweed
- Allseed
- Isolepis cernua
- Isolepis setacea
22/08/22
- Parsley Water Dropwort
- Grey Seal (x3)
02/08/22
- Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
- Wood Pigeon (x2 – unheard of delights!)
- Twite (x20)
- Scots Lovage
- Isolepis setacea
01/08/22
- A cracking set of moths in the moth trap (a total of 348 individuals of 28 species), including: True Lover’s Knot (x215) Garden Tiger (x6) Double Square Spot Six-striped Rustic Annulet Lempke’s Gold Spot Gold Spot Heath Rustic Archer’s Dart
July 2022 – Sightings
29/7/22
- Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
- Curlew
- Great Skua
- Arctic Skua
- Pheasant (the last one on Coll?)
- Cuckoo (recently got by a Sparrowhawk)
- [Long-eared Owl (reported)]
- juvenile Robin (recently fledged)
- The Great Tachinid Fly (Tachina g_rossa_)
- Alder Tongue Gall (a striking fungus on Alder trees)
- Red Admiral
- Common Valerian (only known site on Coll)
28/7/22
- Red-throated Diver (x4)
- Great Skua
- Arctic Skua
- 8 Bottlenose Dolphins
18/7/22
- Red-throated Diver
- Eider (with 2 ducklings)
- Hen Harrier
- Curlew
- Greenshank
- Arctic Skua (x2)
17/7/22
June 2022 – Sightings
30/6/22
- Common Blue Damselfly
- Blue-tailed Damselfly
- Large Red Damselfly
- Heath Fragrant Orchid
- Water Lobelia
- Pale Butterwort
- Creeping Soft Grass
28/6/22
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Arctic Skua
27/6/22
- Moorhen (3 adults and 7 young)
- Little Grebe
- Dark Green Fritillary
- Anania fuscalis (moth)
- Common Twayblade (c80)
22/6/22
- Buff-tip (moth)
- Dusky Brocade (moth)
- Dark Marbled Carpet (moth)
- Fox (moth)
- Broom (moth)
- Pebble Prominent (moth)
- True Lovers’ Knot (moth)
21/6/22
- Orcas (reported from Sorisdale)
- Dark Green Fritillaries (the first of the year reported)
20/6/22
May 2022 – Sightings
30/5/22
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Whitethroat
- Twite (x2)
- [Reports of Sowerby’s Beaked Whale dead on a beach]
29/5/22
- Great Skua (x2)
17/5/22
- Great Northern Diver
- Tufted Duck
- Hen Harrier (ring-tailed)
- Snipe
- Redshank
- Dunlin
- Turnstone
- Golden Plover
- Corncrake
- Great Skua
- Hairy Rockcress
- Short-necked Oil Beetle
16/5/22
- Shoveler (x2 males)
- Hen Harrier (x2 – ring-tail and male)
- Dunlin (x4 in cracking summer plumage)
- Whimbrel (x7)
- Corncrake
- Arctic Tern
- Twite (x4)
- Early Purple Orchid (x4 locations)
- Early Marsh Orchid (var coccinea)
- Spring Squill
14/5/22
April 2022 – Sightings
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 (x3 – new arrivals)
- Whimbrel (x14+4+2+1 – spring passage has started)
- Hen Harrier (x2 ring-tails)
- Golden Eagle (still around…)
- Little Terns (x6+8 – first of the year)
- Cuckoo
- Swallows
- Sedge Warbler (first of the year)
- Blackcap (two singing males)
- Danish Scurvy-grass (in flower)
24/4/21
March 2022 – Sightings
30/3/22
- White Wagtail (x3)
- Twite (x70)
- (Golden Eagle reported again)
29/3/22
- BLACK REDSTART (female type)
27/3/22
- Red-throated Diver
- Great Northern Diver
- Linnet (first of the year)
- Herring Gull (a single group of 50 birds)
26/3/22
- White-fronted Geese (x8)
- White-tailed Eagle
- Blackcap (female)
- Greenfinch (in song)
- Redpoll (in song)
- Twite (x4+2)
- (Several reports of perhaps 2 Golden Eagles over recent days)
25/3/22
- Red-throated Diver
- Great Northern Diver
- White-fronted Goose (10)
- Fulmar (x9)
- Guillemot
- Razorbill
- Hen Harrier
- Peregrine (x2)
- PURPLE SANDPIPER (x2)
- Twite (x8)
24/3/22
February 2022 – Sightings
28/2/22
- Whooper Swan (x10)
- Greenland White-fronted Geese (x7)
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Woodcock (x1)
27/2/22
- Skylark (a flock of 7 moving south)
25/2/22
- Greenland White-fronted Geese (x8)
- Peregrine (two separate individuals)
- Skylark (x5 first of the spring)
- Goldcrest (x5 singing)
24/2/22
- Turnstone (x29)
- Ringed Plover (x27)
21/2/22
- Hen Harrier (male)
- Greenland White-fronted Goose (x8)
- Guillemot (x2)
- Kittiwake (a steady passage north)
- Great Northern Diver
- Redwing
19/2/22
- Reed Buntings (a single flock of 18 birds!)
- Greenfinch (unusual on the island)
- Goldcrest (x3 in song)
18/2/22
January 2022 – Sightings
31/1/2022
- Teal (x29)
- Kestrel
- Lapwing (x60)
- Puffin (adult dead on strand-line)
- Kittiwake (juv dead on strand-line)
- Common Eelgrass (washed-up on beach)
27/1/2022
- Ringed Plover (x36+21+80)
- Sanderling (x20+10)
- Peregrine
- Kestrel
- Great Northern Diver (x2)
- Barnacle Goose (c1200 – a big count!)
- Wigeon (x15)
- Teal (x135)
- plenty of otter tracks
25/1/2022
- Jack Snipe
23/1/2022
- Bottlenose Dolphin (washed-up dead on beach)
21/1/2022
- Jack Snipe
- Curlew (x51)
20/1/2022
- Teal (x9)
- Moorhen
- Common Whitlowgrass (in flower)
15/1/2022