Wildlife Sightings at Muasdale Holiday Park
(lots to see on a daily basis on park or on the beach)

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2008
June.  All the usual birds were spotted.  Eider ducks with ducklings were a regular sight.  68 seals with pups were seen on the rocks just offshore.

July:  All the usual birds were spotted.  Roe Deer was spotted by one of our statics, most unusual at this time of the year.  Curlews spotted on beach.  Otters spotted.  Stouts spotted.  Lots of seals with pups.

August:  All the usual birds for this time of year spotted.  3 x Little Egrets spotted at West Loch Tarbert.  A few seals around.  Swallows still with us.

September:  All the usual birds spotted.  Herons visit every morning and evening.  Whimbrels pop up on a regular basis.  (19th - 26th) Dolphins were spotted several times, unfortunately not when I was around.  Stonechats perch on the highest point in the long grass and sing away.  Robin sits on the wires and chats all day long.  Oyster catchers strut their stuff on the shoreline.  Otter spotted on the shore line, busy eating fish.  Roe Deer + two little ones came down on the hill behind the park to munch at the fuchsia bushes.

October:  All the usual birds spotted.  Whimbrels spotted on the beach.  Roe Deer venture onto the park on a regular basis.  

November & December:  All the usual season birds.  Whimbrel, stonechats, ringed plovers, herring gulls, cormorants, wren, blackbird, thrush, robin, red breasted mergansers, eider ducks, Shelducks, golden eyes, otter, dolphins (27 & 28th December)

2009
January: All the usual seasonal garden birds.  Seals, Cormorants, Herring Gulls, Shelducks, Eider Ducks, Ringed Plovers, Robin, Stonechats, Wren, Blackbirds, Thrush, Golden Eye, Oystercatchers, Red Shank, Brent Goose, Buzzards, Heron, Crows, Red Breasted Mergansers, Otter.

February:  All the usual seasonal garden birds.  Seals, Cormorants, Herring Gulls, Shelducks, Eider Ducks, ringed Plovers, Robin, Buzzards, Stonechats, Oystercatchers, Heron, Red Breasted Mergansers.

March:  All the usual seasonal garden birds, Oystercatchers, Eider Ducks, Cormorants, Herring Gulls, Shelducks, Otter, Seals, Magpie.

April:  All the usual season garden birds, Swallow arrived back 1 day later than last year, had a head wind !!  Roe deer spotted regularly eat our fuschia bushes.  Great Northern Diver and Whimbrels spotted several times.

May:  All the usual season garden brids. Oystercatchers, Shelducks, Eider Ducks, Red Breasted Mergansers, Roe Deer, Seals, Cormorants, Gulls, Terns, Ringed Plovers, Mallards, Swans, Gannets.

Roe Deer descend from hill behind park to munch on fuscia bushes.

  

Roe Deer regularly come and visit the park from the hill behind the statics, love chomping on fuchsia bushes.


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List of wildlife to be spotted, dependent on time of year:
Seals, Shelducks, Eider Ducks, Herring Gulls, Common Gulls, Great Black backed Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Cormorants, Oystercatchers (nesting), Sparrows, Blackbirds, Stonechats, Buzzards (nesting), Great Northern Diver, Pied Wagtails, Fulmars (nesting), Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Blue Tits, Siskins, Coal Tits, Great Tits, Goldfinches, Wood Pigeons, Collared Doves, Carrion Crows (lots), Mallards, Swallows (nesting), Robin, Wren, Swans, Spotted Flycatcher, Whimbrels and many more species.

Photographs of various wildlife spotted around the park can be viewed here.  Click on slideshow for best effect.
Click on A&A or My Photos beside the page title, for more photographs.

1-7 Usual garden birds.  Seals, Cormorants, Herring Gulls, Heron, Oystercatchers, Swallows, Red Breasted Mergansers, Stonechats, Buzzards, Gannets, Terns, Ringed Plovers, Baby Rabbits, Mallards. Eider Ducks and ducklings.
10 Otter on shore by Touring Park
11-24 All the above usual birds.  Lots of seals on reef & swimming offshore.  Female Eider Duck, Swans, Oystercatchers.
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