Christine's walking & birds blog

We walked from home, down the road to the loch-side, up through the Braes of Ullapool, and through the plantations near the mast. There was no sign or sound of any crossbills.

As we made our way across the high moorland a large raptor came flying towards us from the sea. It looked pretty big, and we thought white-tailed sea eagle at first, but I think it's a golden eagle. It seemed to have a full crop, and several of the pictures show it with an open bill and tongue showing.


The eagle was moving deceptively fast (that's my excuse anyway!) and was a bit too close to focus on with the full zoom.  It flew further into the Rhidorroch Estate and we lost it.

The warm sunny weather also disappeared, and by the time we had made our way down the steep, muddy path of Ullapool Hill and were passing through the gate onto the road, the rain had set in once more. A good walk though!