Summary July 2012 Garden The awful weather continued into July as all records for rainfall in the UK were broken. Thankfully we were on holiday on Mull from the 7th – 17th where, contrary to the rest of the country, the weather was beautiful. Details of this holiday can be seen below but suffice it…
Scotland Holiday Day 11 : 16th July 2012 : Isle of May / Bass Rock On the Sunday we spent the day doing family visits and so on in Edinburgh and Musselburgh but we added an additional day onto our holiday so that I could have a chance to take a boat trip out to…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Scotland Holiday Day 3 – 8th July 2012 : Corncrakes on Iona We arrived on Mull on Saturday 7th July and by the time we were settled into our self-catering cottage the rain was pouring down and things did not seem very auspicious at all. However by 9 am the next morning things were much…
