Rain, rain go away..

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 quickly.

Next stop we saw A WTE nest and the male flew out to hunt the offshore islands, perching up on a skerry for a while. G-N Diver and Black Guillemot here too.

The weather came in and we saw a few Red Deer over lunch. We had good views of a pair of Red-breasted Merganser with a female Goosander coming in to join unusually, but a good time to compare these tricky species.

Back to the coast we had good views of an Adult male WTE perched in the trees before he flew down calling to the nest and did a changeover with the female. 2 more Otters, a dog and a female appeared fishing in the bay below.

The weather really came in so we headed back early with an Irish Hare running across a field a good way to end the day.