Birds
The Isle of Coll has a large variety of bird species, both common and rare to the western isles and the UK. A definitive list could never be complete so here I'll just show an example of what you may see during your visit.
Arctic Skua
Arctic tern
Barnacle Goose
Black Guillemot
Buzzard
Common Sandpiper
Corncrake
Cuckoo
Eider
Fulmar
Gannet
Goldfinch
great black-backed gull eggs
Great Northern Diver
Greylag Goose
Guillemot
Hen Harrier
Heron
Herring Gull
Herring Gull (youngster)
Hoopoe
Kittiwake
Lapwing
Lesser Redpoll
Lesser Redpoll (yellow headed variant)
Little Egret
Little Tern
Long-eared Owl
Manx Shearwater
Meadow Pipit
Merlin
Osprey
Oystercatcher
Oystercatcher (chick)
Pied Wagtail
Puffin
Raven
Razorbill
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Diver
Redshank
Reed Bunting
Ringed Plover
Ringer Plover
Robin
Rock Pipit
Sanderling
Sedge Warbler
Shag
Snipe
Snow goose
Snow Goose
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Stonechat
Swans (mute) and cygnets on Loch Ballyhough
Tufted Duck
Twite
Waxwing
Wheatear
White-fronted goose
Whitethroat
Whooper swan
Willow Warbler
Wren
© All photos, Tony Oliver