Summary of Our Birding on Mull, Iona and Lunga : July 2012
It may be that we had left it a little bit late in the year to visit Mull but we can hardly saw we were disappointed. We had seen sixty-two species including two of our target birds, Golden Eagle and White-tailed Eagle; we had heard three Corncrakes and had best ever views of Hen Harriers and Short-eared Owls. Neither of the last two were new to us but Manx Shearwater and Glaucous Gull were. We had added nine species to our year list for 2012 and generally defied the weather by having a fantastically sunny and pleasant week on the island. We had visited a great Puffinry on Lungs and seen FIngal’s Cave but the star of the show was Mull itself – a fantastically nature-rich island and one I hope to be able to return to very soon – perhaps even next year.
Bird Sightings : Mull, Iona and Lunga
| Species |
|---|
| Greylag Goose |
| Canada Goose |
| Mute Swan |
| Common Shelduck |
| Mallard |
| Common Pheasant |
| Northern Fulmar |
| Manx Shearwater |
| Northern Gannet |
| Great Cormorant |
| European Shag |
| Grey Heron |
| White-tailed Eagle |
| Northern Harrier |
| Common Buzzard |
| Golden Eagle |
| Corncrake |
| Ringed Plover |
| Eurasian Oystercatcher |
| Common Sandpiper |
| Common Redshank |
| Dunlin |
| Black-legged Kittiwake |
| Mew Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| Glaucous Gull |
| Great Black-backed Gull |
| Common Tern |
| Common Guillemot |
| Razorbill |
| Black Guillemot |
| Atlantic Puffin |
| Stock Dove |
| Common Wood Pigeon |
| Eurasian Collared Dove |
| Short-eared Owl |
| Eurasian Jackdaw |
| Rook |
| Hooded Crow |
| Common Raven |
| Collared Sand Martin |
| Barn Swallow |
| Great Tit |
| Northern Wren |
| Willow Warbler |
| Sedge Warbler |
| European Robin |
| Common Stonechat |
| Northern Wheatear |
| Eurasian Blackbird |
| Song Thrush |
| Common Starling |
| White Wagtail |
| Meadow Pipit |
| Rock Pipit |
| Chaffinch |
| European Greenfinch |
| Eurasian Siskin |
| European Goldfinch |
| Common Bullfinch |
| House Sparrow |