Christine's walking & birds blog

There were several "bottling" seals off Ardmair, and this one looked at me for some time before throwing back its head and yawning - either that, or it was having a good laugh.


A black-throated diver sailed past the campsite spit on Loch Kanaird.


I was about to get back in the car after my cold walk along the beach, when a last look through the bins picked up an unmistakable shape flying purposefully across distant Annat Bay.


The sea eagle (which seems to be an adult from the pics) turned and then flew obliquely towards Ardmair but was probably never closer than about two kilometres. It circled over the sea for a while then flew strongly past Isle Martin and disappeared to the north.


There was a supporting cast (here and back in the village) of curlews, ringed plovers, turnstones, oystercatchers, shags, great northern diver, and black guillemot; but it was the eagle that made my day.