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Scotland Holiday Day 9 – 14th July 2012 : Red Kites at Doune
Scotland Holiday Day 9 – 14th July 2012 : Red Kites at Doune On the Saturday we had to get the ferry from Mull to the eastern coast of Scotland. Today would mostly be driving but we thought that we could fit in a little bit of birding. We drove from Oban across the Trossachs to Crainlarich, Callander and Doune. We stopped at Lerrock’s Farm…
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Summary of Our Birding on Mull, Iona and Lunga : July 2012
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…
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Scotland Holiday Day 8 – 13th July 2012 : Mull
Scotland Holiday Day 8 – 13th July 2012 : Mull It was our last day on the island and we had a long drive next day so we started out thinking that we would have a simple day by driving down to Fishnish Bay and take a walk along the coast without much driving. There are a couple of good parking places around here so…
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Scotland Holiday Day 7 – 12th July 2012 : Mull
Scotland Holiday Day 7 – 12th July 2012 : Mull On our seventh day of holiday – our sixth day on Mull – we decided to have a more leisurely day and to drive around a few parts of the island that were on our “to visit” list that we hadn’t seen yet. We decided to start with Loch Frisa which is, of course, the…
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Scotland Holiday Day 6 – 11th July 2012 : Lunga and Staffa
Scotland Holiday Day 6 – 11th July 2012 : Lunga and Staffa On the Wednesday we had arranged a boat trip to Lunga and Staffa with Staffa Tours. The island of Lunga is the largest of the Treshnish Islands and is a famous seabird colony with a large Puffinry. Our boat set off from Tobermory and crossed the Sound of Mull to Kilchoan on the…
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Scotland Holiday Day 5 – 10th July 2012 : Sea Eagles at Loch Na Keal
Scotland Holiday Day 5 – 10th July 2012 : Sea Eagles at Loch Na Keal The previous day we had gone to Glen Seilisdeir to see the White-tailed Eagle’s nest in the forest bu we wanted to have a closer experience of these birds so to this end we had also booked a boat trip with Mull Charters who did 10am boat trips up Loch…
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Scotland Holiday Day 4 – 9th July 2012 : Sea Eagles at Glen Seilisdeir
Scotland Holiday Day 4 – 9th July 2012 : Sea Eagles at Glen Seilisdeir When we arranged our holiday on Mull we had a number of target birds we hoped to see but one of the most exciting was without question the largest UK bird of prey, the White-tailed Eagle. Mull, of course, is one of the main centres on the west of Scotland for…
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