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Mar 2024
8:08pm, 21 Mar 2024
4,191 posts
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NordRunner
I had a nice long close look at a nuthatch today, foraging on the trunks of an overgrown conifer right outside my kitchen window. I initially thought treecreeper but the markings, and behaviour like foraging upside down, clinched it.
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Mar 2024
7:57am, 22 Mar 2024
3,021 posts
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RunningRonnie
Going to Mull next weekend. Can't wait. Hoping for an eagle!
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Mar 2024
8:36am, 22 Mar 2024
5,115 posts
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J2R
Ronnie, with a bit of luck you should see both golden and white-tailed.
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Mar 2024
8:42am, 22 Mar 2024
3,022 posts
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RunningRonnie
Would be amazing!
I'll be on the lookout for some waders too. I love a sanderling.
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Mar 2024
8:51am, 22 Mar 2024
65,098 posts
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Derby Tup
Sea otters. Err, something to look out for on Mull I think, not a spot from this morning’s walk by the river Worth
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Mar 2024
8:51am, 22 Mar 2024
3,714 posts
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flyingfinn
Going to Mull next weekend. Can't wait. Hoping for an eagle!
Ronnie, head of Loch na Keal is a good place to start. There is a crag on the south side that is a well known Golden nest site and White Tailed are often found perching in the conifers on the North side. Plus the Loch and shore are good for lots of other stuff including Otters. It's a very popular spot with GNDs as they head north but you're a bit early for them. Parking is easy on both sides and either offers good views of both likely Eagle spots.
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Mar 2024
8:53am, 22 Mar 2024
3,715 posts
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flyingfinn
Sea otters. Err, something to look out for on Mull I think, not a spot from this morning’s walk by the river Worth
"Sea otters" no such thing in the UK DT. There just Otters in the sea 😉 well unless they've got lost from the north west Pacific 🤣
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Mar 2024
9:04am, 22 Mar 2024
65,099 posts
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Derby Tup
 I never saw one in Ardnamurchan so they must have been in the Pacific then
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Mar 2024
9:04am, 22 Mar 2024
5,117 posts
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J2R
ff, the place you mentioned is exactly where I saw a golden eagle a few years ago. We were there hoping to see white-tailed eagles but didn't see one there. One flew over our hotel car park a bit further north, though, later that day, a juvenile, being mobbed by hooded crows. They were so small by comparison, they looked like motorbike outriders.
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Mar 2024
9:06am, 22 Mar 2024
8,285 posts
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um
They are cuter than Scottish otters. Unless you're a crab.
NW Pacific (California coast) sea otter
Scottish otter
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