23rd March 2014
Looking northwards over Loch Portree to the Old Man of Storr.
Camas Man beach; sheep looking for a deck chair and a toffee apple.
Fooled once again; what appeared to be two circling Golden Eagles proved on closer inspection to be Common Buzzards (Buteo buteo), with the typical buzzard colour pattern on the underside of the wings.
Nature's own Cheerios
An unusual lichen, though Linda insisted it was polystyrene.
We thought it was a Merlin at first but subsequent analysis of images revealed a Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) (image by Bruce).
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) (image by Bruce).
(Image by Bruce)
Notice the coloured ring on the left leg and the metal ring on the right leg.
The ring is silver over red, indicating that the bird was ringed in 2008.
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