We've had a quiet start to the birding year, we've had so much on! However we managed to get away for a week and booked a cottage in Aultbea overlooking the sea.
Most of the birding was pretty distant, with very little coming near the shore apart from a pair of Red breasted Mergansers.
Around Aultbea we did find quite a few birds though, but getting some decent photos proved difficult, although this Common Gull posed nicely
We visited Poolewe a few times and made use of the hide at the National Trust Inverewe estate, although the windows don't open fully and they were filthy!
Anyway, we did manage a few sightings, over our visits; Grey Heron,
We were delighted to see an Otter as dusk set in, again not close, but for the record:
We did a lot of mooching about exploring various roads, this wasn't in a Glen but definitely a Monarch:
