First day on Mull

 On going to bed, the windows were rattling and the howling was unbelievable😲😂!! The weather was attrocious!!😂 So it was with some relief on opening the curtains it wasn't raining Hurrah!! Though it was very misty and grey!!! 

View from the living room and no rain!

The view the other way

Robin in the garden, with some interesting Fungi

Close up on the Fungi

Garden Blackbird, loads of Blackbirds on Mull!

Think you're going to have to get used some grey, dull pics, the weather is not being kind!!! 

Today we had decided to stay fairly local to our base in Dervaig, we would start at yesterday's Dipper location, then drive around, firstly to look for some Snow Buntings that had been reported a few days previous, then down to Torlisk, before rounding off to Calgary Beach, the plan, to basically drive the single track roads until we found something good!! Lots of passing places on these roads, which are in pretty good nick!! Below are some pics  of the things we found, as per usual my pics are the birds and Margie has done most of the scenery!!

The Dipper spot as we have christened it, bit different with the tide in and no sign of a Dipper😢

Greylag Geese

Seven Snipe had a fly around

The rain has created some superb Waterfalls!!

Red Deer we ran into several of these, not literally, we are driving to slowly for that

Checking us out!! We stayed in the car!

The scenery is lovely

These were on the side of the road, with no fences!! Margie wanted to take more pics, but I weren't hanging around!!

Even though it was very grey and misty, the Sun tried to break through!

A Buzzard showed well as we crossed some Moorland, you can go through 4 habitats on a 20 minute drive!

A Kestrel hovered, we saw four on our tour

We hit the coast

We stopped at a likely looking spot and set up the scope, I don't mind carrying it in the car!! Seal popped up

Great Northern Diver, plenty of these about

Great Black-backed Gull

Raven

We arrived at Calgary Beach, a field on the way in held Waders and Geese, The Waders were Oystercatchers and Curlews, the Geese were Greylags, with a single Pinkfoot with them, I have scanned a lot of Geese flocks this holiday already!! Nice to be rewarded for my diligence!

Pinkfoot Goose with Greylags and Oystercatchers

Wren

Stonechat

Margie had fun on the beach!

We had arrived much quicker than I had expected, so decided to head down to the Ulva Ferry! Once again stopping if we spotted something good!

Hooded Crow, I love Hoodies!!

Chaffinch, flock of about 40 around some cattle feed, despite giving the my full attention couldn't find a Brambling.

Dunnock, lot's of em on Mull

We found another awesome Waterfall

Grey Heron, there seems to be one around every corner and can be annoying when one is looking for Eagles, I'd strung three by this point! 😂

Red-breasted Merganser, lot's about but none very close as yet

Common Gull

Hen Harrier, mucho excitement when this came along the coast!

Common Scoter

Eider

From this position we could see where the waterfall seen earlier entered the sea!

Seals having a lounge

Shag

Raven

Shag

An appropriate sign for driving the roads of Mull

Goldfinch

Another Great Northern Diver

Mistle Thrush

Pied Wagtail

Slav Grebe

Grey Heron, told you there was one around every corner

Rock Dove

Red-breasted Merganser with Slav Grebe

Curlew

Otter, this was the 2nd one of the day!!

Slav Grebe

Pub on Ulva, we didn't cross over!

Not sure how he got up there or how he's going to get down

Back at the Dipper spot Redshank and Snipe

Greenshank

Back at the ranch I put some peanuts into the feeders and within minutes there were several Tits on it!!! 

A very enjoyable day, there's only about 7 hours daylight here, which just about does us well as we were running out of energy by the end!!!! A very good start, no Eagles, but the weather wasn't very conducive and anyway don't want to peak to early!! Still any day with two Otters and a Hen Harrier is a good day!!