A post to showcase some of the sensational seasonal spectacles we can enjoy at this magical time of the year. Info in the captions. Catch up with another MNW blog post from the island... Golden-ringed Dragonfly Four-spotted Chaser Hares-tail Cottongrass male Beautiful demoiselle Golden Eagle and a Hooded Crow Green Hairstreak Chequered Skipper Speckled Yellow Moth

Nasty north - hats, gloves and layers! Cold northerly winds hit the island this week with guides and guests all layered up and ready for action! It did mean lots of dry weather and good clarity and visibility with the fresh temperatures! The wind switched to easterly later in the week and got slightly milder but still a real nip in the air! Greening up and the arrival of midges! The island has transitioned into a rich verity of greens now! It looks so lush and spectacular! M

On Monday we provided two Mull Nature Explorer tours, meeting the guests in Tobermory. It appeared to be a very settled high pressure spell for the week ahead and highs of 18 degrees, so the short and shades were out along with the sun lotion! Ewan and group had great views of a golden eagle actively hunting in the heather! It may have been a field vole but even a cuckoo, which was nearby the area! An adult white-tailed eagle was also seen soaring to the east. Whimbrels were

Beautiful bright blue skies and barely a cloud and a light southerly breeze. Theo picked up guests starting with coastal habitats seeing a WTE on her nest, Golden and Ringed Plovers, Turnstones, Eiders Great-northern and Red-throated Divers. Onto more moorland habitats for operation skydancer, calm sunny more can be great for Hen Harriers to display and we treated to a fantastic 45sec long display from a male Hen Harrier yo-yo'ing above the ground catching the sun, a 2nd more

A very welcome settled high pressure spell has arrived on Mull and looks to be carrying on into next week as well. Beautiful sunshine with the songbirds in full voice! On Monday Theo provided tours for guests from the cruise liner Majestic Line. They managed to see a Golden Eagle chasing a Cuckoo! Also, a WT Eagle v close to Tobermory as well! Mum and cub Otter were also seen during the trip, all bathed in beautiful Hebridean sunrise. Jack had a Mull Nature Explorer with eigh

Klay and Ewan ran two 3-hour nature youth sessions for children on Friday. In the morning we were joined by 6 children and 2 parents for a walk around Aros park to check the local heronry and even find some egg shells and a heron pellet! The birds were in good song and we listened to them with our parabolic microphone, giving us super hearing! To finish with we made a couple of birds nest using sticks, mosses and mud! The afternoon session further south on the isalnd was quit

A bright and breezy day with occasional longer spells of very heavy showers. Theo and group headed straight for the sea lochs. At the first stop we had great scope views of a pair of Golden Eagles, the male perched on a tree below the nest and the female incubating up above, he flew off and did a few passes of the hill face before heading off. Behind us an Adult WTE flushed all the gulls soaring over the side of the loch. Just as we were getting in the van an another adult WT

A bit breezy today with rain in the morning and patchy sun into the afternoon. Theo started with coastal habitats finding Great-Northern Divers, Black Guillemot, Wigeon, R-B Mergansers, Harbour Seals and a Grey Seals. Visiting 2 Golden Eagle nest sites we saw the top of the females head at one but no visit from the male. At the next nest we could clearly see the female looking out before the male appeared up above soaring above the hill for a short while drying off! Continuin

A wet day but thankfully a light breeze. Theo's tour started in style with great views of an Otter and her sizable cub swimming ashore from a fair distance, before play fighting and preening each other on a small offshore reef and drinking from a freshwater burn further up the shore, all in the pouring rain... A gap in the rain at our next stop we had brief views of another Otter and cub, this time a very small cub, not old at all. They headed ashore and out of view all too q

A bright but breezy day to start before wind got up and cloud came in with a little rain. Theo and his group headed over to Ardnamurchan on the ferry crossing we had good numbers of Manx Shearwaters, Guillemots, Razorbills, Shags, Kittiwakes and a few Gannets. A single Common Dolphin leapt from the water a little distantly but didn't show again. Arriving at Kilchoan we spotted 2 White-tailed Eagles on the near hill side being harassed by Ravens. Onto our next stop we had good

Ewan checked a few Golden Eagle territories on Friday, and it's at this time of the year that it is with negative emotions to see both adult birds on the wing for a prolonged period of time. Pictured is the female bird and the male is just of frame, indicating a failed breeding attempt for this pair for the fourth time in five years sadly. On Thursday Klay had two half day private tours and one of the highlights was seeing golden eagles mating! Another sighting of note was 7

Not as much rain as originally forcast this week but still slightly unsettled and a good wind blowing and gusting! It was warm on Tuesday, reaching 15 degrees, compared with the 2 degrees we got only a few days earlier! Klay had a tour on Tuesday and managed to get some moderate views of both eagle species and hen harriers. The eagles are sitting tight on their goose sized eggs right now so a bit tricker to spot at this critical time. Common Sandpiper on the shoreline of Loch

Theo and Klay both had Mull Nature Explorers today, meeting the guests in Tobermory. It was quite a cold wind but mainly dry, which was a welcome change! WT Eagles were showing well on both tours and also views of Golden Eagles in different capacities. One of the highlights was this stunning male Merlin pictured! This is the ‘April spike’ with Merlins passing through the island on their way to more northern breeding grounds. Otters were seen on both tours, actively feeding in

Light breeze and bright to start and then the rain came in. Theo picked up his family private tour and headed straight for the coast finding a pair of WTE's, the female on the nest and the male off-duty bird sat in the tree above showing well. Offshore there were Great-northern Divers and a few Harbour Seals. Heading for a sea loch on our drive around we had Wheatears, Lapwing, Curlews, Eiders, Black Guillemot, Common Guillemot, R-B Mergansers, a brief flyby Sand Martin and a

A bright but breezy morning. Theo picked up his guests and headed straight for the sea lochs seeing a few Harbour Seals on the way and Fallow Deer in the woods. There was a fine Red Deer stag up on the hill at the first stop and an adult WTE soared distantly over the hills. We spotted a dog Otter from the van on the shore so got out and watched it devouring a large Eel!, whilst 2 White-tailed Eagles were our fishing, 1 landed its catch and ate it out on the reef. A short way

A misty and rainy start to the day but brightened into a lovely but breezy afternoon. Theo picked up his group and headed for the more sheltered east of the island. A few spots along the way yielded little noteworthy due to the heavy rain, March deluge into April showers here we go! Heading for coastal habitats we found a large herd of 31 Whooper Swans resting up grounded by the weather followed by 2 Adult Whooper later on as well as a few Great-northern Divers, Eiders, R-B

A misty and cloudy day mostly with light showers and bright spells. Theo's tour: Theo picked up his private tour group and headed straight for a WTE territory. We had good scope views straight away of the female sat on her nest. A Harbour Seal was on an offshore skerry, a favourite for the kids in the group. Heading for coastal habitat we were watching a female Otter shortly later fishing tight against the shore catching smaller fish before we parked up and had great close vi

A moody sky with odd showers but stayed windy all day. Ferry issues meant we were down a few guests sadly, but we headed out straight to the sea lochs for low tide. Theo instantly found a an Otter with her big cub heading out to feed, taking shelter from a squall, we lost them for a while till they appeared in front of us giving great scope views rolling around playing on the reef. We also saw G-N Divers and a Slavonian Grebe here. Further down we saw a Wheatear and a close f

A superb sunny day with a light breeze. Theo's first tour of the season back on Mull. He started more or less where he left of with an Adult White-tailed Eagle perched up in the conifers with a Sparrowhawk and several Buzzards there too, before covering more coastal habitats, swiftly finding another pair of adult White-tailed Eagles which were very vocal and copulated in front of us! We had a distant Golden Eagle behind us as well as a Grey Seal and a few Harbour Seals, Great

Rain hammering down at first light and a tricky forecast so we provided a shorter 4 hour tour today. The guests were from Newcastle and Vancouver as we headed out to explore this magical island! We got onto two WT Eagles at our first stop, showing strong pair bonding with some close interactions. We then focussed on the coast and saw GN Divers, Slavonian Grebes and RB Mergansers. Further north we had a stunning male Hen Harrier before a superb overhead WT Eagles view! Harbour