Golden Eagle

With an errand to do I traveled a bit further on this run out. I stopped to get a couple of snaps of this Redshank...

...but a bird flying along the hillside caught my eye. By the time I had parked the bird was not flying but perched on a rock. A Golden Eagle is always an exciting sight...

...but you can't beat a well marked first year bird when it takes to the air.

A Reasonably close Great Northern Diver was next bird to slow me down but by this time the light was starting to go...

...and it was raining when I located a few Barnacle Geese in a field.

A Song Thrush allowed a close approach which helped with this image.

It always seems to be the female Red-breasted Mergansers that are closest to the shore while the males seem to move off quite quickly.

A quick run out with Postie in the afternoon to look for the mum and two cubs was fruitless but we did see a couple of Golden Eagle and three separate Otters...

...and a pair of White-tailed Eagle.