male Brambling around gardens in Salen (image by Michael Jackson)


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



 
reports from
Tiree
Tiree Report
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Archived reports
from Mull
Jan-Feb-March
2009
Sample copy 
click here
Jonathen Tyler

 
The Isle of Mull Bird Report (2009) is
available for sale at £5.95  in the followinh shops:
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Radio tagging of Mulls young Sea Eagles (2009)
Two of Mull's Sea Eagles chicks from Loch Ba and one from Glen Seilideir have been radio tagged so that they can be tracked over the next few years and provide valuable information.

 
Species-
Wheatear
Sand Martin
Willow Warbler
Barn Swallow
Ring Ouzel
Cuckoo
Chiffchaff
Common Sandpiper
Whitethroat
Tree Pipit
Whinchat
Blackcap
House martin
Swift (passage)
Sedge Warbler
Arctic Tern
Common Tern
Corn Crake (Iona)
Wood Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler
Spotted Flycatcher
Pied Flycatcher
Common Redstart
Garden Warbler
Dotterel
Osprey
Whimbrel
Lesser Black backed Gull
Nightjar
Manx Shearwater
Great Skua
2000
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Tick infested Puffin
Alan Spellman


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