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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.
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Roe Deer regularly come and visit the park from the
hill behind the statics, love chomping on fuchsia
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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Otter on shore by Touring
Park
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All the above usual
birds. Lots of seals on reef &
swimming offshore. Female Eider Duck, Swans,
Oystercatchers.
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