BIRDS
Eider – 15 (mixed sex flock) Bay of Culkein, 30th January (DAH)
Turnstone – 5 Bay of Culkein, 30th January (DAH)
Buzzard – very light variant just south of Ledmore junction, 29th January (Bill and Val Badger)
Bar-tailed Godwit – single still showing well Culkein Drumbeg harbour area, 29th January(Ian and Pat Evans)
Fieldfare – single near Ardvar Bridge, 27th January (Ian and Pat Evans)
Dipper – 2 River Inver opposite Coigach-Assynt tree nursery, 27th January (DAH)
Goldeneye – single male River Inver opposite Coigach-Assynt tree nursery, 27th January (DAH)
Curlew – 23 Stoer Green, 27th January (DAH)
Brambling – using feeders Culag building Lochinver, 26th January (Paul Hendrich)
Woodcock – singles near Oldany and Nedd, 25th January (Ian and Pat Evans)
Barnacle Goose – 28 Culkein Stoer, 25th January (DAH)
Starling – c75 Culkein Stoer, 25th January (DAH)
Mixed gulls – 5 species Bay of Culkein: 47 Common; 5 Herring; 3 Great Black-backed; 2 Black-headed and 1 Glaucous (2nd winter), 25th January (DAH)
Redshank – 2 Bay of Culkein, 25th January (DAH)
Turnstone – 35 Bay of Culkein, 25th January (DAH)
Goldfinch – 6 Drumbeg, 24th January (DAH)
Golden Plover – 21 Clachtoll, 23rd January (AS)
Curlew – 8 on machair at Achmelvich, 23rd January (AS)
Fieldfare – single Elphin, 22nd January (DAH)
Jackdaw – 5 on garden feeders Elphin, 22nd January (DAH)
Peregrine – hunting to east side of Quinag over A894, 22nd January (DAH)
Teal – 8 (3 male 5 female) Oldany estuary, 21st January (DAH)
Hooded Crow – 16 birds at cattle feeding trough, Ledmore, 21st January (AS)
Long-tailed Tit – 2 Culkein Drumbeg, 21st January (DAH)
Black Guillemot – 2 Loch Dhrombaig, 21st January (DAH)
Cormorant – 12 in Lochinver bay, 5 adults, 7 first winter and one with leg ring, 20th January (AS)
Dipper – adult singing along River Inver at Inveruplan, 20th January (AS)
Twite – single feeding in garden Culkein Drumbeg, 20th January (Corinne France)
Goldfinch – 13 Glencanisp road Lochinver, 20th January (DAH)
Golden Plover – 4 Clachtoll, 20th January (DAH)
Mallard – 20 Loch an Aigeil, 20th January (DAH)
Goldeneye – 3 female Lochan Sgeireach, Stoer, 20th January (DAH)
Twite – 84 birds caught and ringed at Clachtoll by Tony Mainwood, 19th January
Reed Bunting – 3 (2 male 1 female) in garden Balchladich, 19th January (Gordon Sleight)
Brambling – pair on garden feeder Balchladich, 19th January (Gordon Sleight)
Purple Sandpiper – 8 on rocks below Stoerhead Lighthouse, 19th January (DAH)
Razorbill – 2 off Stoerhead Lighthouse, 19th January (DAH)
Guillemot – 3 off Stoerhead Lighthouse, 19th January (DAH)
Bullfinch – single male near Lagg, 19th January (Ian Evans)
Kestrel – female Culkein Stoer, 18th January (DAH)
Redshank – 2 Bay of Culkein, 18th January (DAH)
Turnstone – 9 Bay of Culkein, 18th January (DAH)
Dipper – single Oldany estuary, 18th January (DAH)
Little Grebe – single Oldany estuary, 18th January (DAH)
Great Northern Diver – 2 Loch Dhrombaig, 18th and 21st January (DAH)
Little Grebe – single on small unnamed loch near Torbreck, 17th January (Gwen Richards)
Cormorant – single Loch Awe, 17th January (Gwen Richards)
Tufted Duck – 4 Loch Awe, 17th January (Gwen Richards)
Goldeneye – 4 Loch Awe, 17th January (Gwen Richards)
Curlew – 22 Stoer Green, 17th January (AS)
Brambling – female still at Clachtoll, 17th January (AS)
Herring Gull – c145 in the air and on rocks at fish farm Loch Dhrombaig, 17th January (DAH). Photo on Gallery-Birds.
Tufted Duck – 13 (3 male, 10 female) Loch Drumbeg, 16th January (DAH)
Eider – c25 mixed sex flock off Bay of Culkein, 16th January (DAH)
Bar-tailed Godwit – single still showing well Bay of Culkein, 16th and 18th January (DAH)
Mixed Thrushes – 11 Redwing; 7 Song Thrush; 2 Fieldfare and 2 Blackbird Oldany Farm, 16th January (DAH)
Brambling – female in garden at Clachtoll, 15th January (AS)
Redwing – 10 at Clachtoll, 15th January (AS)
Black-headed Gull – single at Clachtoll, 15th January (AS)
Cormorant – 6 in Lochinver bay, 15th January (AS)
Wigeon – single male Culkein Stoer, 14th and 18th January (DAH)
Tufted Duck – single male Loch na Claise, 14th January (DAH)
Goldeneye – single male Loch na Claise, 14th January (DAH)
Black-headed Gull – 2 1st-winter Balchladich Bay and 4 (2 adult, 2 1st-winter) Bay of Culkein, 14th January (DAH)
Glaucous Gull – single 2nd-winter bird Balchladich Bay, 14th January (DAH)
Redwing – 5 Balchladich, 14th January (DAH)
Great Northern Diver – 3 Clashnessie Bay, 14th January (DAH)
Kestrel – near Nedd/Drumbeg cattle grid, 14th January (Ian and Pat Evans)
Great Northern Diver – Clachtoll, 13th January (AS)
Lapwing – 3 near communications mast Raffin, 13th January (Leigh Sedgley)
Great Black-backed Gull – 28 Loch Dhrombaig, 13th January (DAH)
Lapwing – 5 Culkein Stoer, 11th January (DAH)
Shelduck – single flew over Culkein Stoer, 11th January (DAH)
Curlew – 5 Culkein Stoer, 11th January (DAH)
Barnacle Goose – 32 Culkein Stoer, 11th, 14th and 18th January (DAH)
Greylag Goose – 5 Culkein Stoer, 11th January (DAH)
Starling – 50+ Culkein Stoer, 11th January (DAH)
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Bay of Culkein, 11th and 14th January (DAH)
Rock Pipit – 12 Bay of Culkein, 11th January (DAH)
Turnstone – 57 Bay of Culkein, 11th January (DAH)
Ringed Plover – 37 Bay of Culkein, 11th January (DAH)
Redshank – 6 Bay of Culkein, 11th January (DAH)
Sanderling – 3 Bay of Culkein, 11th and 14th January (DAH)
Barn Owl – single hunting side of road between Clashnessie and Strathcroy, 10th January (Derek Spenser)
Black Guillemot – 2 Loch Dhrombaig, 8th January (DAH)
Carrion Crow and Hybrids – seen feeding Culkein Stoer, 7th January (Andy Summers). This is the first sighting of the hybrid Hooded/Carrion Crows this year.
Great Northern Diver – 3 Loch Dhrombaig, 8th January (DAH)
Redshank – 3 Bay of Culkein, 7th January (Andy Summers)
Oystercatcher – 51 Bay of Culkein, 7th January (Andy Summers)
Turnstone – 32 Bay of Culkein, 7th January (Andy Summers)
Bar-tailed Godwit – single Culkein Drumbeg harbour area, 6th January then two on 8th January (DAH)
Great Northern Diver – 3 Loch Nedd, 5th January (DAH)
Great Spotted Woodpecker – single female Nedd, 5th January (DAH)
Treecreeper – single Nedd, 5th January (DAH)
Great Tit – 6 preening in the same tree Nedd, 5th January (DAH)
Goldeneye – 3 (2 male, 1 female) Loch Ruighean an Aitinn, Drumbeg, 5th January (DAH)
Redwing – 3 Drumbeg, 5th January (DAH)
White-tailed Eagle – single near Stoerhead Lighthouse, 4th January (Paul Burnett)
Teal – 4 (2 male 2 female) Oldany Estuary, 4th January (DAH)
Mixed feeding flock – 9 Long-tailed Tit; 2 Goldcrest; 1 Treecreeper and 1 Blue Tit near Culkein Drumbeg, 4th January (DAH)
Woodcock – single near Culkein Drumbeg, 4th January (DAH)
Reed Bunting – 6 Rubh’an Dunain, 3rd January (Andy Summers)
Purple Sandpiper – 2 Rubh’an Dunain, 3rd January (Andy Summers)
Turnstone – 16 Rubh’an Dunain, 3rd January (Andy Summers)
Eider – 14 off Rubh’an Dunain, 3rd January (Andy Summers)
Barnacle Goose – 24 near Rubh’an Dunain, 3rd January (Andy Summers)
Curlew – 6 Oldany Estuary, 3rd January (DAH)
Little Grebe – single Oldany Estuary, 3rd January (DAH)
Grey Heron – 5 Oldany Estuary, 3rd January (DAH)
Jack Snipe – single flying Culkein Drumbeg, 2nd January (DAH)
Great Spotted Woodpecker – female on garden feeder, 1st January and then male on 3rd January both Nedd, (Ian and Pat Evans)
Gannet – single adult off Rubh’an Dunain, 1st January (DAH)
Kittiwake – 4 off Rubh’an Dunain, 1st January (DAH)
Red-throated Diver – single off Rubh’an Dunain, 1st January (DAH)
Reed Bunting – 5 males Culkein Stoer, 1st January (DAH)
Barnacle Goose – 24 Culkein Stoer, 1st January (DAH)
Sanderling – single Bay of Culkein, 1st and 2nd January (DAH)
Turnstone – 3 Bay of Culkein, 1st January (DAH)
Redshank – 2 Bay of Culkein, 1st January (DAH)
Black Guillemot – singles Loch Dhrombaig and off Rubh’an Dunain, 1st January (DAH)
Great Northern Diver – 2 Loch Dhrombaig; 5 Bay of Culkein and 2 off Rubh’an Dunain, 1st January (DAH)
OTHERS
Pygmy Shrew – Dead on path at Little Assynt estate, NC151 265, 23rd January (AS)
Otter – Beyond Lochinver Pier, 17th January (AS)
Otter – feeding in huge sea off Rubh’an Dunain, 9th January (Paul Burnett)
Painted Lady butterfly – single reported in house Lochinver, 7th January (Richard Sloan). This is evidence of this migratory species attempting to hibernate.
Pale Brindled Beauty Phigalia pilosaria – came to house light Nedd, 5th January (Ian Evans). Photo on Gallery-Moths.
Otter – dead one beside road at Elphin, 4th January (Rosie Christmas)
Harbour Seal – 17 Oldany Estuary/Culkein Drumbeg harbour area, 3rd January (DAH)
Harbour Porpoise – 2 off Rubh’an Dunain, 1st January (DAH)