A full day not watching whales and dolphins today at possibly the best mainland site in North West Scotland. I spent seven hours here and saw just one white-beaked dolphin. Still, it's a very scenic spot and there were lots of birds, skuas, shearwaters, divers, auks, twite etc., but best of all, a hobby flew over the lighthouse and away south. I'm not sure if I've ever seen Hobby in Scotland before, but certainly not in this area.
However I didn't just sit in one spot all day, I also did the 5 mile return walk to the Old Man of Stoer which is very impressive, though not as big as the Old Man of Hoy.
Here's what I should have seen.
It was also a day of nostalgia, the island in the top right of this photo is Handa which I visited several times including with my Mum and Dad in the 1980's. It's a big sea bird colony.
In fact this is us on Handa in 1985.
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