Mammal Watching in Speyside (6/9)

 

Here are some of my photographs taken on a mammal and bird watching holiday in Scotland near Aviemore with Speyside Wildlife during August 2006.

  

 

 

 

We arrived at the west coast with a view looking towards Gruinard Island where we just managed to see this white tailed sea eagle. It was at least a mile away so not the best of our pictures. Gruinard was where anthrax was released during the second world war as an experiment and only tidied up in the 1970's.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We made our way to Gairloch and after lunch boarded this boat for a three-hour trip in search of whales.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This spritely owl was on the lookout for cetaceans, but despite a glorious day, none was to be seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a fantastic view across the Little Minch, the sea separating the mainland near Gairloch from the Western Isles. This is a view of the northwest part of Skye, with the vertical columns of the Old Man of Stoer just about visible to the left of centre. Out of shot to the right were the isles of Harris and Lewis.

 

 

 

 

 

Here we are chugging back into harbour at Gairloch having seen gannets, fulmars, a storm petrel, puffins and a red throated diver but unfortunately no mammals.

 

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