Sightings in 2009 « Assynt Field Club

Sightings for December 2009

Male Blackcap at Badnaban 3rd December (Tina LLoyd-Jenkins).

Common Scoter at Badnaban 6th December (Gwen Richards).

7 Whooper Swans at Clar Loch Mor 12th December (Ken Fairchild).

5 Whooper Swans at Loch Culag 17th December (Ken Fairchild).

Sightings for November 2009

Single Golden Eagle from lochinver 11th November (Mary Aird & Jean MacBain)

Pipistrelle bats flying around house at Recharn 18th November (Rosemary Baines)

13 Whooper Swans on Loch Assynt 5th November (Gwen Richards)

Sightings for October 2009

2 Sanderling at Stoer 28th september (Howard Grey)

Barn owl at strathan 16th October (Clarinda Chant)

Female Blackcap at stoer 16th October (Howard Grey)

female Blackcap at Balchladich 16th October (Gordon Sleight)

Summary of sightings 2009

Observations from Assynt for 2009 (in date order)

1.4: dark swordgrass moth (Baddidarach, LF; immigrant species). 11.4: bar-tailed godwit (Culkein Stoer, GR). 13.4: golden eagle (over Lochan Mhic Leoid, GR). 15.4: frogs (at 650m on Quinag, GS). 18.4: cuckoo (Ordain, EG). 19.4: hawfinch (Ardvar, MP). 21.4: barn owl (pellet, Rientraid, DM; contained three field voles). 24.4: swallow (Ardvar, IME). 25.4: grasshopper warbler (Lochinver, AS). 26.4: two scaup (Loch an Aigel, HG). 28.4: common sandpiper (Loch Drumbeg, IME). 30.4: lesser duckweed Lemna minor (pond, Drumbeg, NM/IME; 2nd record for West Sutherland).

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