Thursday, December 18, 2025
After a visit to the medical centre to have my "bloods" done, I drove to Ardmair to give the car battery a bit of a charge - and spotted a feeding frenzy of seabirds far out. I headed back and turned along the road to Rhue, walking down a very muddy path to the lighthouse. Before I could get my camera out, a humpback whale broke the surface just out from the rocks. I next picked it up farther out towards the Coigach shore....
....and then managed to catch part of the tail as it came closer and dived just off Isle Martin.
Yesterday morning: The immature white-tailed eagle was soaring over the loch and the village.
A white-winger was on the golf-course spit, though probably not a genuine glaucous. (The wings do look a paler, more silvery grey, though, than those of the herring gull behind it - not sure if that's significant.)
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I could see whale blows far away and went home for lunch, returning in the afternoon to get cold all over again. Eventually my patience was rewarded when a whale broke surface in the middle of the loch, and a few dolphins were then spotted leaping nearby. Greger popped round to see if anything was happening, just in time to see some lunge-feeding.
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In the last picture I can just see some auks in the foreground when I click it up - hadn't noticed them before. Today (Thursday) is the eighth day I've been watching the whale - and of course it was here several days before I started. It's certainly brightened up December!
// posted by Christine @ 7:53 AM 
