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Grey Plover 3 birds
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Loch Beg
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19th July
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Bryan Rains
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2009
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Glaucous
Gull
Red
necked Grebe
Coot
Drake
Long tailed duck.
White billed Diver
Ortolan Bunting Rose coloured Starling Yellow Wagtail (blue head) Turtle Dove Hawfinch Scarlet Rosefinch Lesser Whitethroat Lesser Whitethroat Quail (calling) Hobby (juvenile) Pied Flycatcher Glossy Ibis 33 Scaup (incl 7 drakes) Red Kite (black isles, juv '09) Siberian Stonechat Siberian Chiffchaff Magpie Coot Morrhen |
Killiechronan/Tobs Loch na Keal Calgary Glen Gorm Laggan Bay Craignure (photo) Dervaig-Tobermory Road Loch na Keal Aros-Glen Bellart Calgary garden Kellan Mill Loch na Keal Loch Frisa Loch Buie various locations Glen Forsa Marble quarry Iona Fidden no report received Loch Scridain Bunessan Ardvergnish Macdougalls Garage. Ulva Ferry Loch Harrison Loch Harrison |
Jan-Feb 1st Feb 11th Feb 29th Feb 1st March 9th May1st Argyll record 29th May 17th May 19th June 15th June 1st Mull record 16th June 1st Mull record 21st June 1st Mull record 23rd June May and June Early August 11th September 17th September 4th October 20th September 23rd Oct 1st Mull record 5th Nov 1st Mull record 28th October 18th-28th October 18th- 28th October |
Alan Spellman et al Daffyd Roberts Arthur Brown Arthur Brown Andy Caroll Sandra Price & A Ingle Steve Brown C Rose & Bob Bailey Robert Hoare Andrew & Helen Mortley Ben Dickinson. Mersyside Geoff Trigg Ashly Saunders several reporters found injured (died) Mike Wagemakers Alein Shreeve Bryan Rains Bob Hastie Bryan Rains Bryan Rains Albert Halfpenny Ron Coook Ron Cook |
2008
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Waxwing (28 birds) Waxwing (12 birds) Waxwing (single) Kingfisher Kingfisher Sabines Gull Rose Coloured Starling Pied Flycatcher male Turtle Dove Rose Coloured Starling Rosey Starling male Jack Snipe Nuthatch Sooty Shearwater Turtle Dove Hoopoe returning Nightjar Tree Sparrow Common Scoter drake Pintail Black Tern Goshawk Magpie Nuthatch 1st on Mull Shoveler female Pintail Lapland Bunting Purple Sandpiper Rough legged Buzzard |
Salen Craignure/Duart Loch Buie Aros Park Salen Bay Lady Rock off Duart Castle Bunessan Killiechronan Ardtun nr Bunessan Dervaig (sub station) Dervaig road side Croggan Craignure garden Calliach Point S E Iona Isle of Ulva Loch Spelve Iona near the Nunnery Loch na Keal Calagary Sound of Iona over Salen Forest Lochdon garden Calagary Loch Beg Dervaig Glen Forsa Grasspoint Treshnish point |
4th November 2008 1st November 2008 31st October 2008 18th October 2008 28th August 2008 28th August 2008 8th August 2008 4th August 2008 3rd Auguust 2008 30th July 2008 31st July 2008 10th July 2008 30th June 2008 7th June 2008 25th May 2008 26th May 2008 26th May 2nd-3rd May 2008 6th May 2008 8th May 2008 6th May 2008 May 2008 30th April 2008 10th April 1st Mull record 9th April 2008 14th April 13th -16th April 2008 27th March 2008 3rd March 2008 |
Dave Sexton Andy & Hazel Kirkham J Hurles Sheila Barnard Mike Wagemakers no name Alan Spellman et al Richard Atkinson Pauline Reid Pam & Arthur Brown Maurice Webber Andrew Carey Pete & Jan Hall George & Ann Burns Brian Stone visitor Visitor Ross & Ray Facer Mike Richardson no name John Almond Derek Lister Mike Timms (local) Andrew Mortley Peter Hall et al (local) no name Mick & Sylvia Brennan Peter Hall Anand Prasad |
2007
| 2007
Black Redstart Long tailed Duck Pintail Green Woodpecker Eurasian Jay Gosshawk (probable) Moorhen Tree Sparrow Tree Sparrows Grey Pharalope White billed Diver Ring Ouzel Pectoral Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Eurasian Nightjar Red backed Shrike Sabines Gull Goshawk (probable) Turtle Dove Kingfisher Lapland Bunting Kingfisher |
Loch na Keal River Ba
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January 2007
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Alan Spellman (local)
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2006
| 2006
Kingfisher Gadwall drake Purple Sandpiper Hobby Black tailed Godwit (25) Red Kite (blue tags) Little Tern (4 birds) Black Scoter (Common) Eurasion Jay Green Woodpecker Turtle Dove Nightjar Magpie Nightjar Nightjar Ring billed Gull Black Redstart Ring Ouzel Rose Coloured Starling Curlew Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Moorhen Gadwall drake Little Gull Eurasion Jay Moorhen Common Pochard Kingfisher Ring billed Gull |
Fishnish Bay
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22nd November 2006
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Jimmy Wilson (the vet)
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2005
| 2005
Kingfisher Water Rail Moorhen Grey Phalarope Sooty Shearwater Ring billed Gull Sabine's Gull Pied Flycatcher Green Sandpiper American Golden Plover Magpie Spotted Crake heard Dotterel. 3 birds present Green Woodpecker Grey Phalarope Iceland Gull Magpie Common Scoter Wood Sandpiper (2) Scaup a pair Magpie (same bird ?) Magpie Red Kite Green Woodpecker Ring Ouzel Glaucous Gulls (3rd yr) Jay (a pair of birds) Little Gull Ring Ouzel Iceland Gull (2nd yr) Glaucous Gulls 2nd |
Aros Park Tobermory garden Aros Park Lismore point Lismore point Oban Harbour Lismore point off Ferry old road glen More Grasspoint Loch Beg 1st record Croig road/Dervaig end Dervaig Reeds. Dun da Ghaoithe.mast Lochdon garden Lochdon Garmony Tobermory harbour Croig by Dervaig Loch na Keal Lochdon north shore Pennyghael/Scridain Grasspoint Fionnphort flew over Iona Killechronan Loch Frisa Loch Spelve/Tobermory Torosay Woodland walk Loch na Keal Craignure Loch na Keal |
28th November 2005 28th Niovember 2005 23 November 2005 28 September 2005 30 September 2005 most of September 2005 23 September 2005 6th Sept 2005 9th Sept 2005 3rd-6th Sept 2005 7th July 2005 16th June 2005 24th May 2005 14th June 2005 11th June 2005 various dates in May 05 27th May 2005 4th May 2005 27th April 2005 27th April 2005 31st March 2005 30th March 2005 29th March 2005 22nd March 2005 11th March 2005 3rd -28th February 24th February 2005 13th-16 February 2005 2nd February 24th January 2005 2nd January month |
Duncan Hall Duncan Hall Shaun Mccullagh Bill Jackson John Evans, Paul Bridges Stuart Gibson Bill Jackson Tony & Chris Bryan Rains Bryan Rains (local) Meg Davies David Williams Graham &Trish Cundall John Preston & friend via Jan Hall et al Nick Laughton Pam & Arthur Brown TBA Pam & Arthur Brown David Woodhouse et al Mike Wagemakers Visitor no name Jan Fuller/visitors John & Angela Preston Alan Spellman et al Torosay estate A Brown & others/AS Peter Hall A Spellman & others David Woodhouse |
2004
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Velvet Scoter Grey Plover Ruff a single bird Long tailed Duck Ross's Gull 1st Mull record Magpie Pomarine Skua 125 birds Little Stint Reed Warbler Smew Leucistic willow warbler 2nd summer Iceland Gull Northern Shoveler (pair) Black Kite Goshawk Pintail ( a pair of birds) Glaucous Gull 1st winter Purple Sandpiper Goshawk Grey Plover Iceland Gull 3rd Year |
Fishnish Bay Fidden Fidden Camp site Fidden Camp site Fidden camp site Road side south of Salen Oban-Craignure ferry Ardalanis beach Ardalanish Reed Bed Loch Pottie along Grasspoint road Loch na Keal Fidden North side of L Scridain location confidential Garmony picnic area Glenforsa shore Grasspoint location confidential Fidden shore camp site Loch Scridain N shore |
8th November 2004 6th Oct 2004 6th Oct 2004 6th Oct 2004 6th Oct 2004 8th June 2004 5th May 2004 17th May 2004 16th May 2004 17th May 2004 7th May 2004 20th April 2004 13th April 2004 20th April 2004 15th April 2004 14th April 2004 15th April 2004 14th April 2004 9th April 2004 16th February 2004 3rd Jan-16th Jan 2004 |
David Woodhouse David Woodhouse A Brown, P B & A S Pam Brown, A B & AS A Spellman, A & P Brown Alan Ash. Bolton Rod MacCann Mike Wagemaker Carol Mareshal Mike Wagemaker Shaun Mcculloch/Alan S John Poyner, Heatherlea Ian Stewart John Poyner Heatherlea Speyside Wildlife John & Christine Craig Speyside Wildlife Speyside wildlife Finlay Christine P & A Brown. Flis Hansen Bird Club members |
2003
| 2003
Waxwings Long tailed duck Kingfisher Bee Eater Kingfisher Kingfisher Hoopoe Moorhen Turtle Doves Rose Coloured Starling Purple Sandpiper (2) White billed diver Red Kite Green Woodpecker Pomarine Skua Bee Eater Corys Shearwater Leucistic willow warbler Little Stint Purple Sandpiper (2) Shoveler Kingfisher Forsters Tern 1st Argyll record Long tailed duck |
Loch Buie, Loch Frisa areas Loch na Keal, Scarisdale rocks DW Killechronan camp site. A S Killechronan (John Dadson) Loch Buie by Moy castle Loch Cuin by Dervaig (Gill Little) Tiraghoil Bunessan (Mike Clarke) garden at Lochdonhead (D Bennett) 3 birds at Tobermory (Len White) local garden Seil Island (B Jackson) Staffa at the entrance to cave off Iona north shore Pennyghael/Loch Beg Laggan sands/Loch Buie (heard) Loch Beg Loch Buie 2 birds Iona (off north shore) breeding along Grasspoint road Lochdon Lochdon/Grasspoint Pennyghael, 1st Mull record Gruline church - Knock bridge area Oban Bay (Bill Jackson) Aros Park. Tobermory |
26th Oct 2003 27th Oct 2003 1st Oct 2003 30th Sept 2003 31st Aug 2003 29th Aug 2003 21 July 3003 13th June 2003 9th June 2003 27th May 2003 15th May 2003 18th May 2003 16th/17th May '03 17th May 2003 17th May 2003 11th May 2003 9th May 2003 25th April -June 23th April 2003 23rd April 2003 8th April 2003 22nd January '03 8th January 2003 1st-17th Jan 2003 |
2002
| 2002
Red necked Grebe Long tailed Duck Crested Tit Grey Plover Red necked Grebe Coot (2) Purple Sandpiper (2) Wood Sandpiper Eurasion Jay Goshawk Rose Coloured Starling Kingfisher Jack Snipe Common Coot Pied Flycatcher 1st Mull record Jack Snipe King Eider Magpie |
Bloody Bay Tobermory Aros Park. Tobermory Tobermory 1st Mull record Lochdon Grasspoint (last 31/3/98) Loch Pottie Lochdon Lochdon Aros Park Loch Buie Iona (last in July1984) Fishnish Loch na Keal Loch Assapol Ardura Oak Woodland Grasspoint Tobermory (last in 1980) Pottie. Ross of Mull |
5th November 2002 15th Oct-29th Dec 2002 19th Oct- 9th Nov 2002 7th October 2002 7th October 2002 5th October 2002 21st September 2002 8th/9th August 2002 25th July 2002 23rd July 2002 15th-17th July 2002 9th July 2002 20th June 2002 18th May 2002 27th May 2002 14th May 2002 27th March 2002 7th April 2002 |
2001
| 2001
Grey Pharalope Little Auk Iceland Gull (1st year) Pectoral Sandpiper Eurasian Jay Little Gull (1st year) Corn Bunting Turtle Dove Wryneck Turtle Dove |
Ulva Ferry Loch Scridain Loch na Keal Fidden Aros Park Lagganulva Fidden Pennyghael Croig 1st Mull record Salen Garden visitor |
19th December 2001 19th December 2001 22nd-24th Nov 2001 5th Oct 2001 17th Sept 2001 1st - 4th Oct 2001 22nd August 2001 26th July 2001 14th May 2001 7th-15th May 2001 |
2000
| 2000
White billed Diver Wood Sandpiper (3) Polish Mute Swan |
Loch na Keal 1st Mull record Lochdon bridge estuary Lochdon cygnets (2) |
21st May 2000 8-9th July 2000 Summer of 2000 |
1999
| 1999
Green Sandpiper Spotted Redshank Little Gull Polish Mute Swan Leucistic willow warbler Surf scoter drake Jack Snipe Velvet Scoter |
Grasspoint Dervaig Scallastle beach Lochdon. Tiroran Craignure bay. Quinish Croig |
1st July 1999 11 July 1999 3rd July 1999 Summer of 1999 Summer of 1999 13th -25th May 1999 27th August 1999 27th May 1999 |
1998
| 1998
Red Kite (2) Green Woodpecker Grey pharlalope Pie-billed grebe 1st Mull record Red-backed shrike Bee-eater Jack Snipe |
Lochdon/Gorston Tiroran Loch Chumbhainn. Mishnish lochs Pennygael Glengorm. Loch Beg |
September 1998 Sept/Oct 1998 Sept 1998 June/July 1998 June. 1998 9th-11th June 1998 15th March 1998 |
1997
| 1997
Hoopoe Surf Scoter female 1st Mull record Purple sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Bee-eater Golden Oriole(found dead) |
Grasspoint. Lagganulva. Staffa. Fidden Fidden 1st Mull record Burgh (wilderness) 1st Mull record |
1997 April 1996 August 1995 May 1995 May 1995 June 1989 J&TJenkins |
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