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…
Summary June 2012 Garden The good weather that was a feature of the end of May was promptly replaced by heavy rain for the start of and this lasted for most of the month. Our pair of Blackbirds had three fledglings that they were feeding in our garden and a little later that appeared to…
Birding Group Day Out to Martin Mere WWT 26th June 2012 This weeks birding day was at WWT Martin Mere. Unusually for us we started at the United Utilities hide first because there had been talk of a Barn Owl flying as late as 11am. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to see it but, as is…
