March 2024 Sightings

31st March 2024

  • Peacock Butterfly: Single butterfly, Clachtoll (CADL)
  • Small Tortoiseshell: Single butterfly flying over jetty, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
  • Pink-footed Goose: 150+ birds heading north over Port Alltan na Bradhan (Stefan Taylor) and skein of 21 birds heading north over Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)

30th March 2024

  • Reed Bunting: Single male on shoreline, Loch an t-Sabhail (Mike Dawber)
  • Siskin: Four birds on feeder, Achnacarnin (Murray Anderson)
  • Red-breasted Merganser: Single bird feeding, Loch Kirkaig (CADL)

29th March 2024

  • Golden Plover: 5 birds at Clachtoll crofts (AS)
  • Kingfisher: Single bird at lagoon near Duart, Drumbeg (Steven Ivey)
  • Teal: Four birds at Loch an Ordain, Lochinver (AS)

28th March 2024

  • Meadow Pipit: 15 birds, Nedd (Stefan Taylor)
  • Wheatear: Single bird, Church Road Stoer (CADL). Also three birds, Stoer (Carol Langford)
  • Lapwing: Single bird by Clachtoll broch (CADL)
  • Ringed Plover: Two birds foraging in seaweed, Stoer beach (CADL)

27th March 2024

  • Skylark: 18 birds calling and flying over Clachtoll (AS/DAH)
  • Moorhen: Four birds, Loch an Aigeil (DAH)

26th March 2024

  • Red-throated Diver: Two birds in summer plumage, off Kylesku (DAH)
  • Goldeneye: Nine birds (5 male, 4 female) Loch Ruighean an Aitinn (DAH)
  • Shelduck: Two ducks, Duart (Steve Ivey).  Also single greenshank and two red-breasted mergansers

25th March 2024

  • Greenshank: Single bird feeding on intertidal area, Loch Nedd (Ian Evans)

24th March 2024

  • Barn Owl: Single bird, Nedd (Stefan Taylor)
  • Greenshank: Single bird, Lochan an Tairbh, Torbreck (Gwen Richards)

23rd March 2024

  • Long-tailed Duck: Single bird in very rough water, Bay of Culkein (DAH)

21st March 2024

  • Golden Plover: Two birds on croft, Culkein Stoer (DAH)
  • Turnstone: Four birds feeding on beach, Bay of Culkein (DAH)

19th March 2024

  • Redshank: Single bird heard, Loch Nedd (Stefan Taylor)

17th March 2024

  • Greenfinch: Six birds on overhead wires, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
  • Moorhen: Two birds, Loch an Aigeil (DAH)
  • Ringed Plover: Four birds, Bay of Stoer (DAH)
  • White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum): Single queen feeding in garden, Torbreck (Gwen Richards). First one seen this year at this location

15th March 2024

  • Pied Wagtail: Two birds establishing territory, Nedd (Stefan Taylor)

14th March 2024

  • Great Spotted Woodpecker: Single bird feeding on peanuts, Ardvar (Beccy Garvey)
  • Hen Harrier: Single adult male quartering, Elphin (Ian Evans)

12th March 2024

  • Bat flying, probably Pipistrelle sp.: Single animal foraging over Culkein Drumbeg, approx. 2.30pm (DAH)
  • Snipe: Single bird flushed, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
  • Starling: 79 birds on telephone wires, Clachtoll (CADL)
  • Bat, probably Pipistrelle sp.: Single animal flying at 18.30, Nedd (Ian Evans)
  • Dor Beetle (Anoplotrupes stercorosus): Single beetle in garden, Ardvar (Beccy Garvey)

11th March 2024

  • Black Guillemot: Single winter plumage bird, Bay of Culkein (DAH)
  • Redshank: Three birds, Bay of Culkein (DAH)
  • Teal: Two birds (a pair) Loch na Claise (DAH)
  • Goldeneye: Two birds Loch na Claise (DAH)
  • Red Kite: Single bird over Allt Skiathaig, A894 (Gordon Rothero)
  • Curlew: 20 birds, Clachtoll (CADL)

10th March 2024

  • Common Shrew: Single animal, Clachtoll peat track (Gordon Rothero & Ian Evans)
  • Heron: Two birds, Loch Culag (Fiona Carter)
  • Oystercatcher: 10 birds feeding on shoreline, Inverkirkaig (Fiona Carter)
  • Curlew: Three birds feeding on shoreline, Inverkirkaig (Fiona Carter)
  • Greenfinch: Single bird on feeder, Nedd (Stefan Taylor)

9th March 2024

  • Woodcock: Single bird, Inverkirkaig (Mike Dawber).  Lifted from rough grass/rushes
  • Sparrowhawk: Single male in garden, Clachtoll (Dorell Pirie)
  • Skylark: Two birds singing, Stoer Green (CADL)
  • Red-breasted Merganser: A pair fishing, Bay of Stoer (CADL)
  • Bullfinch: Single female, Nedd/Glen Leraig (Stefan Taylor)

8th March 2024

  • Greylag Goose: Nine birds feeding, resting, etc. on Culag Park, Lochinver (DAH). There is a short post with photographs on our Facebook page about these birds.
  • Cormorant: Single bird with plumage breeding patch, offshore island, Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
  • Skylark: Single bird in garden, Achnacarnin (Jean Cousens)

7th March 2024

  • White-tailed Bumblebee: Single insect feeding in garden, Ardvar (Beccy Garvey)
  • Curlew: 20+ birds around Stoer green, etc. (DAH)
  • Little Grebe: Single bird, Loch an Aigeil, Clachtoll (DAH)

6th March 2024

  • Pied Wagtail: Single bird singing, Nedd (Stefan Taylor)
  • Oystercatcher: 16 birds, Stoer Green (Charlie Leeson)
  • Goldfinch: Two birds on feeder, by School Loch (Fiona Carter)

5th March 2024

  • Goldeneye: Three pairs, Loch Ruighean an Aitinn (Ian Evans)
  • Grey Wagtail: Single bird foraging amongst seaweed and rocks, Culkein Drumbeg harbour (Carol Langford)
  • Pied Wagtail: Three birds by harbour, Culkein Drumbeg (Carol Langford)
  • Carrion Crow: Two birds in with c20 Hooded Crows, Oldany (DAH)

4th March 2024

  • Whooper Swan: Four birds, Loch Awe (DAH)
  • Common Lizard: Single animal, Culkein Drumbeg (Carol Langford)

3rd March 2024

  • Black-throated Diver: Single bird, Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
  • Great Northern Diver: Single bird, Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
  • Common Gull: 59 birds on sand, Clashnessie Bay (DAH)
  • Buzzard: Three birds over Culag Woods (Fiona Carter)
  • Mistle thrush: Single bird in song, Nedd cemetery (Stefan Taylor)
  • Teal: A pair calling, Oldany (Stefan Taylor)
  • Goldeneye: Three pairs, Loch Rhuighean an Aitinn (Stefan Taylor)
  • Tawny Owl: Single bird calling, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)

2nd March 2024

  • Mistle Thrush: Single bird calling, overhead wire, Culkein Drumbeg (DAH)
  • Little Grebe: Single bird, Loch Ruighean an Aitinn (Ian Evans)

1st March 2024

  • Cream-spot Ladybird: Seven ladybirds preserved in resin oozing from Spruce tree in Culag woods (AS)
  • Little Grebe: Pair on Loch Culag (AS)
  • Skylark: Five birds on breeding grounds at Clachtoll (AS)
  • Whooper Swan: Two birds, Loch an Ordain (Charlie Leeson)
  • Teal: Two birds, Loch Inver (Charlie Leeson)
  • Turnstone: 15 birds feeding on beach, Culkein Stoer (Mhairi Leeson & Sam Stibbs)
  • Ringed Plover: Seven birds foraging on beach, Culkein Stoer (Mhairi Leeson & Sam Stibbs)
  • Great Northern Diver: Five birds off Clachtoll (DAH)
  • Frog Spawn: Three clumps in cattle grid on Canisp Road (Fiona Carter)
  • Goldeneye: A pair, Loch Ruighean an Aitinn (Ian Evans)

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