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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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Scotland Holiday Day 3 – 8th July 2012 : Corncrakes on Iona
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 better and we were picked up by our tour guides,…
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