Stayed in the picturesque village of Dervaig (near enough next door to the pub)
Got there late evening and went for a few pints. Well that's the saturday over with.
Sunday.
Went on the Discover Mull tour with Arthur Brown set off at 9.35am and didn't get back till after 6.30pm quite a day lots to see as well as geology and nature in general a good all round tour. Anyway this is what we saw bird-wise on the trip.
Rock Pipet
Tree Pipet
Meadow Pipit
Geat Northern Diver
Shag
Grey Heron
Greylag Goose
Shelduck
Mallard
Eider Duck
Red Breasted Merganser
Buzzard
Oystercatcher
Lapwing
Black Guilimot
Whimbrel
Gt Black Backed Gull
Pied Wagtail
Wheatear
Song Thrush
Whitethroat
Blackbird
Robin
Chaffinch
Hooded Crow
Raven
Starling
and of course, White Tailed Eagles
The Goldies weren't playing that day.
The rest of the week was great as we had a good idea of where to look, especialy on the monday night - the day was a bit crap as we couldn't decide what to do and the weather wasn't realy in our favour that week. That night though we decided to have a good drive around to look for Goldies as we knew where abouts they were. Anyway my other half suddenly noticed something in the water (I thought it was another Shag) so I pulled off road and switched the engine off. She only cought a glimpse of an otter before it dissapeared. Half an hour later just before we left - up it came again not very far away from the shore - and just stayed there looking straight at us for about a minute before submerging again. Magic..
One place worth visiting is the Wings Over Mull birds of prey conservation centre and sanctaury. They have a Golden Eagle there (unfortunatly dissabled) and an American Bald Eagle (also dissabled) as well as owls and hawks. They have a wildlife rescue and reabilitaion programme.
Wings Over Mull
Finaly saw the Goldies on the Thursday, and the White Tailed flying around on the Friday hunting for food (needed a scope for both as they were quite a distance away)
Will deffinatley be going back some time maybe in October.
One bit of advice though - take a 4x4 I'm glad we did|
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