ASSYNT BIRD RECORDS

October 27th 2019

Assynt Wildlife Records Digitisation Project

This Project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage

The information being made available here has had no interpretation applied.

Many years of work have gone into collating the data by various residents of, and visitors to, Assynt.

The data is free to download but if you make use of it please acknowledge the source with the suggested citation –

Assynt Field Club; Assynt Wildlife Records Digitisation Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage

Thank you.

Assynt Bird Records (900KB xlsx)

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Recent Sightings

Corncrake

single bird heard calling, Clachtoll croft (AS) (25/05)

Birch Sawfly (Cimbex femoratus)

single club-horned sawfly on Torbreck croft (Corwin Yates). Photo Gallery - Other Insects. (25/05)

Gannet

single bird at east end of Loch Assynt, circling and looking lost (Helen Morrison). The previous two days there had been south easterly gales, turning then into the west. (24/05)

Sedge Warbler

four birds heard singing of which three were seen, Culkein Stoer (DAH) (21/05)

Turnstone

three birds in breeding plumage, Bay of Culkein (DAH). Photo Gallery - Birds (21/05)

Sanderling

four birds in spring plumage, Bay of Culkein (DAH). Photo Gallery - Birds (21/05)