| Latest reports for March 2010
8th Fish Farm Knock: There was a Sparrowhawk in
the main building at the fish farm this afternoon. Colin Moody
8th Lochdon 8 Shelduck, Loch Spelve: 2 Black throated
Diver, 2 Whimbrel.
4th Loch Buie: Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Glen Byre; 4 Golden Eagles in air together, nr Standing Stone Circle; 3
Yellowhammers, Lochbuie village; 8 Great Northern Divers and 3 Red-throated
Divers, Loch Buie; pair of Ravens at nest, Glen Byre track. Ruth
and Stuart
4th Loch Ba: 17 Whooper Swan, Slavonian
Grebe, Goosander plus Meadow Pipits and Skylarks. Arthur Brown
4th Salen Daves Waxwing was still in his
garden today. also a Brambling (5th) around area gardens Felicity
Pollard
3rd-4th Loch Ba: 4 Snow Buntings reoported
here this morning Dave Sexton Arthur Brown
2nd Caliach Point: A male & female Gadwall
at Caliach and 18 Golden Plover at Ulva Ferry. Pam & Arthur
Brown
2nd March : Langamull- Criug-Dervaig:
4
Crossbills, male Siskin in 'butterfly' display flight, group of half-a-dozen
thrushes travelling together included three Fieldfares and three 'grey-backed'
Song Thrushes (perhaps of continental race?), Woodcock and partly
singing male Goldcrests in Langamull forest. 2 Golden Eagles very
high in sky, being mobbed by 6 Hooded Crows or Ravens; 2 immature (white
wing tags) White-tailed Eagles, a Sparrowhawk and 22 Lapwings at Croig.20
returning Meadow Pipits and 8 Skylarks, Langamull beach, with 6 Great
Northern Divers, offshore. Woodcock flushed at Penmore. 2 Greenshanks,
9 Snipe and 12 Ringed Plovers were at head of Loch Cuin at Dervaig.
Ruth and Stuart
1st of March: there were 7 Common Scoters
at Treshnish Point. Anand Prasad
1st Loch na Keal: 6 Slavonian Grebes spotted (there
must be more) Goldeneye, RB Mergansers, Mallard, 4 Great nothern
Diver. Loch Cuin by Dervaig: 2 Greenshank, 6 Snipe, 5 Redshank,
Ringed Plover. Aros river: pair Dipper. Alan Spellman
1st : Loch Buie: 7 Great Northern Divers
and single Red-throated Diver, 2 Redwings and a Woodcock flushed
from under gorse at Glen Byre farm. Immature White-tailed Eagle, from main
road, south of Lochdon
28th February : Gualachaoilish, (hill over Lochdon):
Male Hen Harrier, Peregrine, Golden Eagle, Buzzard, Kestrel and 2 returning
Short-eared Owls; also party of 14 Meadow Pipits back on high
ground and Woodcock flushed. Ruth and Stuart
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