30th October 2020
- Goldcrest: 5+ Culag Woods (DAH)
- Great Northern Diver: two birds still present Clashnessie Bay (Norman Fry)
- Golden Eagle: single bird over Lochinver (Ian Bailey)
29th October 2020
- Redwing: four birds in Achnacarnin garden (Jean Cousens)
- Long-tailed Duck: two birds still showing well, Clashnessie Bay (Norman Fry, Liz Burns, et al.)
- Hen Harrier: single bird over Clashnessie Bay (Norman Fry)
27th October 2020
- Whooper Swan: six birds flying over Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey)
- Common Dolphin: 36+ very active animals off Bay of Stoer (DAH)
- Great Northern Diver: four birds off Bay of Stoer and two in Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
- Curlew: 15 birds over Bay of Stoer (DAH)
- Feathered Thorn: single male moth Nedd, inside front porch of house (Ian Evans)
- Cut-leaved dead-nettle (Lamium hybridum): single plant in Stoer garden vegetable beds (Ian Evans). Only one previous record in Flora of Assynt, from Lochinver
26th October 2020
- Long-tailed Duck: two birds (male and a female/juvenile) Clashnessie Bay and a single juvenile Bay of Clachtoll (Ian Bailey and James Brander). The two Clashnessie birds were still showing well on 27-10-20 (DAH)
25th October 2020
- Great Northern Diver: six birds in a variety of plumages, Loch Dhrombaig (DAH)
- Magpie: single bird Clashmore (Ian Bailey)
- Woodcock: single bird on Torbreck croft (Gwen Richards)
23rd October 2020
- Long-tailed Duck: single winter plumage male on Loch Dhrombaig (DAH). This was a different bird from the one in Clashnessie Bay the day before, it was female. Photos Gallery - Birds
- Whooper Swan: 18 flying over Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey)
- White-tailed Eagle: single bird drifting over Glendarroch/Baddidarrach, on the north side of Lochinver (Chris and Fran Barley)
22nd October 2020
- Long-tailed Duck: single bird, Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
- Harbour Porpoise: three animals Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
- Common Dolphin: 17+ very active animals off Clachtoll (DAH)
- Curlew: 17 birds over Clachtoll (DAH)
- Red-throated Diver: single bird off Clachtoll (DAH)
- Great Northern Diver: three birds off Bay of Clachtoll (DAH)
- Whooper Swan: two groups, 10 and 14 flying over Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey) also 31 flying over Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
- Whooper Swan: 80 (30+20+30) birds flying north over Loch Neil Bhain (Claire Belshaw)
21st October 2020
- Rock Dove: 40 on croft near Clachtoll campsite (AS)
20th October 2020
- Snipe: 6 near reedbed at Clachtoll (AS)
- Otter: single animal in marshy area, Clachtoll (Duncan Orr-Ewing)
- Common Dolphin: two animals off Clachtoll (Duncan Orr-Ewing)
- Winter Thrushes: two Redwing and a single Fieldfare, Clachtoll (Duncan Orr-Ewing). The first record as the thrushes start to arrive in Assynt and eat the Rowan berries.
19th October 2020
- Red-necked Grebe: single bird still present in Loch Inver (Gwen Richards and Duncan Orr-Ewing)
- Merlin: single birds at Clachtoll and Clashnessie (Duncan Orr-Ewing)
18th October 2020
- Golden Plover: two birds, Clachtoll (Duncan Orr-Ewing)
- Long-tailed Tit: 6+ birds Quinag, east of Bad na Fearnaig in isolated row of downy birches (Gwen Richards and Ian Evans)
- Red-necked Grebe: single bird, Loch Inver (Duncan Orr-Ewing)
- Harbour Porpoise: two animals off Bay of Clachtoll (DAH)
- Great Northern Diver: three birds, two still in much of their breeding plumage, off Bay of Clachtoll (DAH)
- Rock Pipit: 22 birds feeding amongst seaweed, Bay of Culkein (DAH)
- Red-throated Diver: two winter plumage birds off Bay of Culkein (DAH)
- Tufted Duck: single male bird, Loch na Claise (DAH)
17th October 2020
- Red Admiral: two butterflies in Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey). One feeding on bugbane, one feeding on escalonia.
- Whooper Swan: 12 birds flying over Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey)
16th October 2020
- Common Dolphin: 20+ seen from kayak 1-2km off Achmelvich (Mike Dawber)
- Red Admiral: Single on Buddleia at Clachtoll (AS)
- Eider: raft of 20 birds off Stoerhead Lighthouse (DAH)
- Otter: single animal feeding around rocks below Stoerhead Lighthouse (DAH)
- Common Dolphin: large and small pods totalling 75+ animals off Stoerhead Lighthouse (DAH/Geoff Pringle)
- Harbour Porpoise: pod of eight animals off Stoerhead Lighthouse (Geoff Pringle)
15th October 2020
- Mountain Hare: single animal on Quinag, below Druim na h-Uamha Moire at c. 900ft (Ian Evans and Gwen Richards)
- Grey Wagtail: two birds together on driveway of Glendarroch garden, Lochinver (Chris and Fran Barley)
13th October 2020
- Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius): single freshly dead skate on strand line, Kylesku Harbour (DAH). Photo Gallery - Marine
- Little Grebe: single bird feeding, Kylesku harbour (DAH)
- Golden Eagle: single bird over Kylesku (DAH)
11th October 2020
- Water Vole: single animal swimming across reedy lochan south of Loch Crocach (Gwen Richards)
- Ringed Plover: 20 birds, including four juveniles, Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
- Great Spotted Woodpecker: single bird on top of electricity pole, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
10th October 2020
- Whooper Swan: 44 birds sheltered at the east end of Loch Assynt for c30 minutes during spell of very windy weather before taking off to the north-west (Helen Morrison & Chris Rix). We have two short videos of this which we hope to post on our Facebook page later today.
- Whooper Swan: two adult and one juvenile birds, Loch na Claise (Claire Belshaw)
- Sparrowhawk: single bird over Loch Neil Bhain (Claire Belshaw)
9th October 2020
- Magpie: single bird, Balchladich (Claire Belshaw). Good to get another record of this corvid after the pair which had been at Culkein Stoer for two years vanished!
- Redwing: single bird, Drumbeg (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Blackcap: single bird, Drumbeg (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Whooper Swan: 18 birds over Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey)
8th October 2020
- Long-tailed Tit: 15 birds in Culkein Drumbeg garden (DAH)
- Golden Plover: single bird towards Rubh'an Dunain (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Great Northern Diver: three birds out from Bay of Culkein (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Barnacle Goose: 130+ over Culkein Stoer (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Whooper Swan: 14 over Culkein Stoer (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Siberian Chiffchaff: single bird in Culkein Stoer garden (Jon and Kate Clarke)
6th October 2020
- Butterflies: five Red Admiral and single Speckled Wood around Drumbeg and a single Red Admiral near Stoer Head Lighthouse (Jon and Kate Clarke)
- Wheatear: two birds near Raffin (Jon and Kate Clarke)
5th October 2020
- Yellow-browed Warbler: several records today - 1 Drumbeg, 2 Culkein Stoer and 2 Clashmore (Kate and Jon Clarke)
- Turtle Dove: single adult bird still feeding around Clashnessie (DAH). Photo Gallery - Birds
- Common Dolphin: c14 off Bay of Stoer (DAH)
- Speckled Wood butterfly: single in Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey)
4th October 2020
- Brambling: a pair in Glendarroch garden (Chris and Fran Barley)
3rd October 2020
- Turtle Dove: single bird Clashnessie (Alasdair MacKenzie). This bird was first spotted by Kenny MacKenzie on 30th September.
2nd October 2020
- Red Admiral: single butterfly on outside of An Cala's window, Lochinver (DAH)
- Great Spotted Woodpecker: single bird calling in Culag Woods (DAH)
- White-tailed Eagle: single adult bird flying along ridge line immediately east of main road Clachtoll (DAH)
- Black-headed Gull: two winter adult birds Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
- Peacock butterfly: single in Ardvar garden (Beccy Garvey)
1st October 2020
- Bar-tailed Godwit: single bird, Bay of Culkein (Pam van de Brug)
- Pink-footed Goose: c160 heading south-east over Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)