Day 4 - Mull and back - 11/7/2017

Today was a more relaxed day as we had pin poited most of the species we wanted to see on Mull.
The first birds of the day were a WHITE TAILED EAGLE with its nest, which overlooked Craig Mure golf club.
Then we moved onto Loch Don, a shallow low land loch surrounded by rough grassland. A SHORT EARED OWL was found,  quartering the grassland behind it. At one point it lowered down, and it was met by another one - a potential nesting site.

Loch Don - FOXGLOVES are literally everywhere in Scotland

 

Also present were a REDSHANK, and a MERGANSER family, but not much else.

 

Further down the road a SNIPE was found.

We left Mull, and took the ferry to the mainland. The area was very beautiful, mountains and sea lochs.

 

At a place called Kilmalieu, high up in the hills was a party of WILD GOATS, animals with a mixture of different colours, some were black, others with more white. Nothing speaks of wilderness like WILD GOATS.

 

On Loch Linnhe, a large sea loch, and site of the second ferry crossing, a MANX SHEARWATER was found in flight and on the water, though distant.

 

At Creag Meagaidh, a national nature reserve, we had a quick look at the feeders there, where there were many SISKINS and LESSER REDPOLLS.

 

 

We returned back to our hotel and so finished our time on Mull.