31st January 2017
- Buzzard: single calling near Rhicarn
- Greenfinch: a pair near Rhicarn.
- Treecreeper: single near Rhicarn
- Dunnock: 2 near Rhicarn
- Chaffinch: 9 mixed sex flock near Rhicarn
- Long-tailed Tit: 5 on garden feeder, Baddidarach
- Woodcock: single bird feeding for over 1 hour in garden, Clachtoll
30th January 2017
- Hybrid wild/domestic cat: animal photographed near Achmelvich. Dr Keri Langridge, Scottish Wildcat Action Project Officer at SNH has confirmed that the cat, while not a pure wild cat, is very much a hybrid based on a system called ‘pelage-scoring’. Photo at Gallery-Land Mammals.
29th January 2017
- Redshank: 7 Bay of Culkein
- Turnstone: 16 Bay of Culkein
- Knot: single bird still showing well Bay of Culkein
- Eider: mixed sex raft on sea off Raffin
28th January 2017
- Primrose: single plant in flower near Maiden Loch, Clachtoll. A very early record for Assynt.
- Greenfinch: 3 males Culkein Drumbeg
- Whooper Swan: two adults on Loch an Leathad Rainich, Clachtoll
27th January 2017
- Goldeneye: pair on Loch Awe
- Jackdaw: 48 Elphin
26th January 2017
- Woodcock: single bird disturbed, Gleann Leireag
- Merlin: single male chasing c30 Siskin Gleann Leireag
- Grey Wagtail: single winter plumage female, Gleann Leireag
25th January 2017
- Goldeneye: 2 (1 male 1 female) Maiden Loch, Clachtoll
- Little Grebe: single bird Maiden Loch, Clachtoll
- Chaffinch: 20 Culkein Drumbeg
24th January 2017
- Common Seal: 3 at Clashnessie
- Sparrowhawk: single at Clachtoll
- Mallard: 2 pairs Loch an Aigeil, Clachtoll
- Chaffinch: 20 at Inchnadamph car park
23rd January 2017
- Knot: single bird Bay of Culkein
- Turnstone: 11 Bay of Culkein
- Sanderling: single bird Bay of Culkein
- Curlew: 18 Bay of Stoer
22nd January 2017
- Common Shrew: single animal found dead on Little Assynt viewpoint path
- Great Northern Diver: single bird Badnaban bay
21st January 2017
- Goldeneye: pair Loch an Aigeil
- Red-throated Diver: single Bay of Stoer
- Great Northern Diver: 4 Bay of Stoer
- White-tailed Eagle: juvenile bird over Bay of Stoer
20th January 2017
- Harbour Porpoise: single off Stoerhead Lighthouse
- Otter: single lochinver bay
- Gannet: 5 (4 adult 1 4th-winter) off Stoerhead Lighthouse
- Fulmar: 17 on nesting cliffs below Stoerhead Lighthouse
18th January 2017
- Harbour Porpoise: 2 off Rubh’an Dunain
- Knot: single bird Bay of Culkein
- Great Northern Diver: 2 Bay of Culkein
- Starling: c110 Culkein Stoer
- Redwing: 2 Culkein Stoer
- Eider: 2 (adult and 1st-winter male) off Rubh’an Dunain
- Goosander: single male Badnaban bay
16th January 2017
- Whooper Swan: 2 adults Lochan Saile nr Achmelvich
- Long-tailed Tit: 3 near Ardroe
- Treecreeper: single bird near Ardroe
- Great Spotted Woodpecker: single female near Ardroe
- Little Grebe: single bird Loch Roe
- Red-breasted Merganser: 5 (2 male 3 female) Loch Roe
- Goosander: single male on Loch Borallan
- Raven: Adult on nest near Inchnadamph
15th January 2017
- Black Guillemot: 4 Loch Dhrombaig. One of these birds was acquiring its summer plumage.
- Iceland Gull: single immature bird over Culkein Drumbeg
- Merlin: female Culkein Drumbeg
- Twite: 61 feeding on croft land, Clachtoll
- Rock Dove: 39 at Clachtoll
14th January 2017
- Stoat: single animal in half-ermine Balchladich garden
- Wigeon: single male Loch Neil Bhain
- Turnstone: 4 Bay of Culkein
- Redshank: 3 Bay of Culkein
- Iceland Gull: single 1st-winter bird Bay of Culkein
- Barnacle Goose: 34 Culkein Stoer
- Tufted Duck: 4 (3 male 1 female) Loch na Claise
- Teal: 10 (4 male 6 female) Loch na Claise
- Little Grebe: 2 Loch na Claise and single birds Lochan Sgeireach and Loch Drumbeg
- Dipper: single bird feeding in Loch Assynt near Ardvreck Castle
- Razorbill: single bird Loch a’ Chairn Bhain
- Goldeneye: 3 (1 male 2 female) Loch Ruighean an Aitinn, Drumbeg
- Sparrowhawk: single bird through Stoer garden
13th January 2017
- Iceland Gull: single immature bird Lochinver bay
- Glaucous Gull: single immature bird Lochinver bay
12th January 2017
- Goldeneye: 3 females Loch Awe
- Cormorant: Three Loch Awe
- Treecreeper: single bird in Badnaban garden
11th January 2017
- Tufted Duck: pair on Lochan Sgeireach, Stoer
- Blackbird: 21 feeding on Culag Park, Lochinver
10th January 2017
- Iceland Gull: single immature bird Loch Inver
8th January 2017
- Turnstone: 4 Bay of Culkein
- Sanderling: single bird Bay of Culkein
- Ringed Plover: 22 Bay of Culkein
- Common Gull: 54 Bay of Culkein
- Great Northern Diver: single bird Bay of Culkein
- Red-throated Diver: single bird Bay of Culkein
7th January 2017
- Goldeneye: 3 (1 male 2 female) Loch Drumbeg
6th January 2017
- Starling: c60 Clashnessie
5th January 2017
- Otter: mother and cub near Clachtoll
- By-the-wind-sailor (Velella velella): huge numbers of this hydroid washed up in Clachtoll Bay. Photos on Gallery-Marine.
- Common Seal: 18+ Oldany estuary area
- Grey Seal: single animal Oldany estuary
- Moorhen: single bird Loch an Aigeil
- Buzzard: 3 over Clachtoll
- Little Grebe: single bird Loch Drumbeg (DAH)
- Teal: 17 Oldany Estuary
- Grey Heron: 2 Oldany estuary
- Great Northern Diver: single off Culkein Drumbeg
4th January 2017
- Weasel: single animal Balchladich
- Reed Bunting: 4 near Brackloch
- Stonechat: single female near Brackloch
- Goldeneye: single female Lochan Fearna and 3 males and a single female River Inver near Little Assynt. Photo at Gallery-Birds.
- Dipper: 4 on River Inver near Little Assynt
- Long-tailed Tit: 6 in trees near Little Assynt Tree Nursery
- Iceland Gull: 1st-winter bird flying across Clashnessie Bay. Photo at Gallery-Birds.
3rd January 2017
- Tawny Owl: single bird singing Culkein Drumbeg
2nd January 2017
- Chaffinch: 21 Culkein Drumbeg
- Greenfinch: 2 (1 male 1 female) Culkein Drumbeg
- Woodcock: single bird Culkein Drumbeg
1st January 2017
- Whooper Swan: 3 (2 adult 1 juvenile) Loch an Aigeil
- Turnstone: 4 Bay of Culkein
- Redshank: 4 Bay of Culkein
- Sanderling: single bird Bay of Culkein
- Reed Bunting: single male Culkein Stoer (DAH)
- Barnacle Goose: 19 Culkein Stoer (DAH)
- Lapwing: single bird Culkein Stoer (DAH). This is a repeat of 2016’s record when a single bird was recorded at this location on the 1st.
- Goldfinch: 16 birds Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
- Great Spotted Woodpecker: single bird on peanut feeder Nedd garden (Ian Evans)