Skye Birds - A Birding Guide to the Isle of Skye
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Bird sightings on the Island of Skye and the neighbouring area

The objective of this page is to keep everyone, locals and visitors, up to date with what birds are about. It is therefore dependent on everyone contacting me as quickly as possible to ensure I can update the site so that others might benefit from the observations. In the case of rarer species details would also be passed on the Highland Recorder Peter Stronach (  who may require a full description before the record was accepted. This website will very much be locally focused but some records will be included in the SOC Highland website www.highlandbirds.scot. and may also reach national sites.  We have complete discretion as to what information is added to these pages and will try to avoid any details which might reveal breeding sites of vulnerable species.  It is impossible to record everything reported and for the more regularly observed species, we would encourage the use of 'Birdtrack' - http://blx1.bto.org/birdtrack.  Records sent to us are also submitted to Birdtrack.

Date Species Image Details
28th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image report in Sleat from near An Crubh (AD)
28th Feb 2019 Jack Snipe View Image single flushed at Portree (JDJ)
28th Feb 2019 Whooper Swan View Image 10 north over Waterloo (NH)
28th Feb 2019 Bullfinch another report of five in a different garden in Portnalong (JT)
28th Feb 2019 Goldeneye a good count of 8 at Loch Achaidh na h-Inich, Plockton (RF)
27th Feb 2019 Bullfinch 6 in garden at Portnalong (ST)
26th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image single still around Edinbane - lovely images by Chris Reynolds in the Gallery
26th Feb 2019 Ptarmigan View Image still two showing well on Ben Aslak (HS)
25th Feb 2019 Brambling View Image four at Portree (NB)
24th Feb 2019 Golden Plover territorial bird back on hill west of Ben Aslak (PK)
24th Feb 2019 Yellow-legged Gull no sign of the bird seen at Lower Milovaig yesterday afternoon 😟 (AS) (see Gallery)
24th Feb 2019 Ptarmigan View Image five on Ben Aslak (PK) (see Gallery)
24th Feb 2019 Slavonian Grebe four off Ardnish, Broadford (NH)
24th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image many more reports than normal with another single near Braigh an Uird, Ord road end (DJ)
23rd Feb 2019 Long-eared Owl View Image single present in garden in Peinachorran, Braes (IG)
23rd Feb 2019 Yellow-legged Gull probable adult at Lower Milovaig late afternoon (AS) - this is potentially a first for Skye
23rd Feb 2019 Viking Gull 2cy bird again at Bayfield, Portree (NB)
22nd Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image single at Drumfearn for last two nights (PK) & bird at Lower Breakish seen again tonight (MB)
21st Feb 2019 Brambling View Image still three in Portree garden (LB)
20th Feb 2019 Canada Goose View Image single in Loch Dunvegan near castle (CH)
19th Feb 2019 Little Egret View Image single still at Arisaig (SMacD)
19th Feb 2019 Black-throated Diver View Image two in Broadford Bay (PO-W)
19th Feb 2019 Brambling View Image male & female below feeders Lochlonghead (PS)
18th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image single at Broadford cemetery (NB) & another at Portree (JDJ)
17th Feb 2019 Brambling View Image three at Home Farm, Portree (NB)
17th Feb 2019 Skylark View Image birds back singing in Milovaig & Glendale (per AS)
17th Feb 2019 Swallow not here ... but crazy unseasonal reports today on Lewis & Shetland so keep your eyes peeled for early migrants
17th Feb 2019 Barnacle Goose View Image single with Greylags at Traigh, Morar (SMacD)
16th Feb 2019 Glaucous Gull View Image 2cy bird still at Bayfield, Portree (NB)
16th Feb 2019 Lapwing 15 at Swordale, Strath (NB)
16th Feb 2019 Barnacle Goose View Image 23 at Staffin Island (CH)
15th Feb 2019 Whooper Swan View Image still three Loch Suardal (JY) & still 10 on the wee loch at Inverinate on the 16th (DM)
15th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image single at Struan (DMcG)
14th Feb 2019 Blue Tit View Image single on Canna is the first island record since 2005/06 (GG)
12th Feb 2019 Glaucous Gull View Image 2cy bird still at Bayfield, Portree (NB)
12th Feb 2019 Jack Snipe View Image single in Broadford Bay (JF)
11th Feb 2019 Canada Goose View Image single with Greylags at Kensaleyre (SG)
10th Feb 2019 Brambling View Image two at Home Farm, Portree (NB)
10th Feb 2019 Long-tailed Tit View Image a number of reports of birds at feeders recently including Stein & Uig (see Gallery)
10th Feb 2019 Jack Snipe View Image single on Ardnish, Broadford (PO-W)
10th Feb 2019 Great Northern Diver View Image four off Ardnish, Broadford + two Black-throats & two Slavonian Grebes (PO-W)
9th Feb 2019 Hen Harrier View Image several recent reports but male at Holomon, Raasay, this morning (JG)
7th Feb 2019 Waxwing View Image two flying west in Harrapool (NB)
7th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image another sighting at Valtos (EC)
6th Feb 2019 Glaucous Gull View Image 2cy bird still at Bayfield, Portree (NB)
5th Feb 2019 Song Thrush View Image flock of 12 birds beside Torabhaig Distillery, Sleat (RMcM)
5th Feb 2019 Glaucous Gull View Image 2cy still at Bayfield, Portree (JDJ)
5th Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image noted again in the Edinbane area (CR) and another at Earlish (NH)
4th Feb 2019 Goosander View Image 12 at Loch Sligachan (NB)
4th Feb 2019 Goldeneye 32 at Loch Kishorn + 350 Black-headed Gulls & 7 Little Grebes (RMcM)
4th Feb 2019 Whooper Swan View Image still three Loch Suardal (S.Thomas) & c10 at Loch Shiel, Lochalsh
4th Feb 2019 Meadow Pipit View Image 60 at Kirton Bay, Lochalsh (DM)
4th Feb 2019 Wigeon 103 at Kirton Bay, Lochalsh (DM)
3rd Feb 2019 Brambling View Image three at Portree, two males & a female (NB)
3rd Feb 2019 Shelduck first back with a single at Galmisdale Bay, Eigg (JC)
3rd Feb 2019 Skylark View Image single back at Staffin + a Meadow Pipit (MP)
3rd Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image single at Lower Breakish at 1800 (PK)
2nd Feb 2019 Glaucous Gull View Image 2cy still at Bayfield, Portree (RMcM)
2nd Feb 2019 Whooper Swan View Image three still Loch Suardal, Dunvegan (ST)
2nd Feb 2019 Ptarmigan View Image single near Bealach na Cruinn leum, Ben Aslak (MB)
2nd Feb 2019 Barn Owl View Image single over the Portree Co-op at 1800 (TH)
2nd Feb 2019 White-tailed Eagle View Image a pair of 3cy birds at Milovaig today with the male appearing to cover the female in flight (AS) - see Gallery
1st Feb 2019 Chiffchaff report of a single today at Glendale (LS)

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