U3A Skye Nature goes forth on Waternish Point

21st June

The expedition set off in high spirits on a fine day weather wise and our first encounter was with monkshood.


This luxury cruiser of the Princess Line was passing through the Little Minch


Misty Little Minch


Ragged robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)


Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis)



No name


Curly wurly


The Alfa Britannia, a Korean registered tanker carrying crude oil from Liverpool to Edinburgh round the top of Scotland (http:\\www.marinetraffic.com). The history of this ship includes an incident at Tranmere docks in which several people were seriously injured when a mooring rope gave way.


We'll never know whether this was a young sea eagle


One of a pair of great skuas


Shags and great black-backed gulls, with a cormorant on the right


To the lighthouse


A gannet


The Uig to Lochmaddy (North Uist) ferry

Seal


Willow warbler


Ardmore Bay

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