Nomad Eagles everywhere

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 flock of Skylarks feeding on the short grass.

At the next stop we had a great immature WTE flyby whilst another circled further down the loch. Just as I put my scope away the female Golden Eagle flew in over the cliff and perched up in the scope before grabbing some nest material and taking it to her nest and rearranging it, fingers crossed for an egg laid soon.

Back down the loch we had good views of an immature WTE before another one came in lifting all the gulls before swooping for the shoreline and carrying off a Guillemot! Presumed scavenged carrion.

Heading away from the coast for the afternoon in a rain shower we saw 2 WTE flyby the van and a large herd of Red Deer.

Onto the next stop we saw 2 tussling immature WTE and a brief flyby male Hen Harrier. On the opposite hill another immature WTE coasted along the hill and a Golden Eagle came up to shoe it away, after a fair bit of aggression the Goldie succeeded and head back to the hillside to join its mate sat eating a Red Deer carcass, a long way off but still good scope views.

We headed back north with 1 quick stop in to see an Adult WTE sat incubating on her nest.

Young WTE's between 1 and 5 years old are often known as nomads, often not paired off at this point and with no territory of their own they roam large areas looking for food and joining up with other similar aged eagles.

Other species: Greenshank, Shelduck, Kittiwake, R-B Merganser, Turnstone, Black Guillemot, Kestrel.