Has spring finally sprung?

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-Northern Divers, Red-breasted Mergansers and a summer plumage Slavonian Grebe. Further down we had a fly by immature White-tailed Eagle which thermalled with a Buzzard.

Back down the loch for lunch we saw Red Deer on the high ground and a lone Fallow Deer in the fields. A pair of Golden Eagles soared high over the ridge where another White-tailed Eagle was perched, whilst yet another WTE flew through, definitely a day for raptors.

Next stop on the coast we saw 2 Common Dolphins and 4 Harbour Porpoises, another brief imm WTE flyby and good scope views of a perched up adult WTE with a few auks out in the Sound there too.

Over to more moorland habitats, we had prolonged views of 2 male Hen Harriers, one decided to preen on a grassy tussock for some time. A WTE soared over the far hills whilst in the scope a distant pair of Golden Eagles tended to their nest. A pair of Mistle Thrush and a Great-spotted Woodpecker from here too and on the way back a large herd of Red Deer, plus a Little Egret on a close by sea loch.

Onto our last spot of the day, a skein of 31 Whooper Swans called as they flew over heading north to Iceland. A superb large flock of Eider were out in the bay, Seals were on the skerries and an Otter briefly appeared on the islands preening before disappearing from view. There was time for a final pair of adult WTE's tending to their nest before heading back to Tobermory.