February 2022 Sightings

28th February 2022

  • Fieldfare: 25  birds at Clachtoll crofts (AS)

27th February 2022

  • Teal: Six birds (three pairs) Loch an Aigeil, Clachtoll and ten birds (five pairs) Loch an Ordain, Torbreck (DAH)
  • Skylark: Six birds on croft land, Culkein Stoer (DAH)
  • Lapwing: Eight male birds, Culkein Stoer (DAH)
  • Pied Wagtail: Single male bird, Bay of Culkein (DAH)
  • Black Guillemot: Four birds in breeding plumage, Bay of Culkein (DAH)

26th February 2022

  • Mistle Thrush: Single bird calling from overhead wire, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)

25th February 2022

  • Bullfinch: Pair of birds in trees just east of Nedd (DAH)
  • Fieldfare: Three birds feeding on croft, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)

21st February 2022

  • Tawny Owl: Single bird calling at 8.20pm from trees near Culag Hotel (DAH)

19th February 2022

  • Dipper: Two birds on loop of river opposite Little Assynt Tree Nursery (DAH)
  • Little Egret: Single bird still showing well on Ledmore River towards Elphin (DAH)
  • Goldeneye: Single male birds, Loch Awe and Cam Loch (DAH)
  • Whooper Swan: Two adult birds, Loch Awe (DAH)
  • Herring Gull: c470 birds on the water and rocks near fish farm, Loch á Chàirn Bhàin (DAH). There were also several Great Black-backed Gulls and a single Black-headed Gull present.
  • Sika deer: Single animal, conspicuous white rump, Bealach Aird na Seilge, south of Loch Assynt (Ian Evans and Gwen Richards)

18th February 2022

  • Chaffinch: Four birds on telephone wire, Clachtoll (Charlie Leeson)
  • Common Dolphin: c12 animals, well offshore, Bay of Stoer (Morag Moir)
  • Divers: Three Red-throated and five Great Northern Divers, Bay of Stoer (Morag Moir/DAH)
  • Razorbill: Two birds, Bay of Stoer (Morag Moir)

17th February 2022

  • Barnacle Goose: c20 birds in field, Culkein (Stephen Ivey)
  • Peregrine: Single bird, Stoer Head lighthouse (Morag Moir)

16th February 2022

  • Great Spotted Woodpecker: Single bird in Drumbeg garden last two days (Margaret Rosenburg)
  • Harbour Porpoise: Single animal, Clachtoll (Charlie Leeson)

15th February 2022

  • Goldeneye: Five birds (2 male, 3 female) Loch na Claise (Andrew Mackenzie)
  • Treecreeper: Single bird, Culag Woods, by White Shore (Morag Moir)
  • Kestrel: Single bird hunting from posts, Clashmore (Andrew Mackenzie)

14th February 2022

  • Lapwing: Two birds, Culkein Stoer (Andrew Mackenzie)
  • Redshank: Two birds on beach, Culkein Stoer (Morag Moir)
  • Tawny Owl: Single male calling from trees, Culkein Drumbeg (Carol Langford)
  • Kestrel: Single bird hovering, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)

13th February 2022

  • Fieldfare: c30 birds on telephone wire, Clachtoll (Charlie Leeson)
  • Goldfinch: Seven birds on telephone wire, Clachtoll (Charlie Leeson)
  • Frog Spawn: Two clumps of fresh spawn in roadside pool, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH). First dates for past 9 years: 2021 - 24 Feb; 2020 - 29 Feb; 2019 - 16 Feb; 2018 - 13 March; 2017 - 19 Feb; 2016 - 3 March; 2015 - 19 Feb; 2014 - 25 Feb; 2013 - 1 March.
  • Harbour Porpoise: Two animals seen from canoe, east of Cùl Eilean, Loch Dhrombaig (Lana Bracewell)
  • Guillemot: Single adult bird in breeding plumage along with two Black Guillemot gaining breeding plumage, Loch Dhrombaig (DAH)

12th February 2022

  • Whooper Swan: Two birds in Ledmore river (Charlie Leeson)

11th February 2022

  • Siskin: c50 birds feeding in trees and on the ground around Woodside car park, Culag Woods (DAH)
  • Goldeneye: Four birds (2 pair), Loch an Aigeil (DAH)
  • Curlew: 25 birds on grazing around Stoer cemetery (DAH)
  • Little Egret: Single bird on the Ledmore river, Elphin (Tony Mainwood). Photo Gallery - Birds

10th February 2022

  • Glaucous Gull: Single 2nd-winter bird, Bay of Stoer (Charlie Leeson). Photo Gallery - Birds
  • Gannet: Two birds fishing, Bay of Stoer (Charlie Leeson)

8th February 2022

  • Black-headed Gull: Single 1st-winter bird, Bay of Culkein (DAH)
  • Oystercatcher: 36 birds, Bay of Culkein (DAH)
  • Barnacle Goose: 32 birds, Culkein Stoer (DAH)
  • Rock Pipit: c40 birds, Culkein Stoer (DAH)

4th February 2022

  • Lesser Black-backed Gull: Single adult bird feeding along with Hooded Crows on spilt sheep food, Clashnessie (DAH)
  • Weasel: Single female, Nedd (Anne Nicoll). As this animal was dead, the following measurements were taken, and these confirmed the sex - head and body 160mm; tail 38mm; weight 48 gms 

3rd February 2022

  • Brambling: Three male and three female birds in Glendarroch garden, Lochinver (Chris and Fran Barley)

1st February 2022

  • Bullfinch: Seven birds feeding on track, Torbreck (Gwen Richards)

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