On the way home from one trip last week we saw a wee bird sitting next to the water on a rock. We snapped a quick photo not knowing what it was. When we looked it up it was a Greenland Wheatear which is slightly larger than more common Wheatear. It has a long migration… Read More

Today we had some lovely divers on the boat, Grampian Divers, a group that have come many times, they are always really good fun and very efficient! During the surface interval, we went to look for Golden Eagles where we have seen them many times. There was one bird sitting up on the top of… Read More

24.7.16 Here’s a wee sample of some of the wildlife we have seen this week: What a beautiful look of love between this common seal mother and its pup. We are seeing lots of these wee ones on the shore and in the water on our trips, we even saw a mum and pup up… Read More

Have a look at this picture, these gulls are stuffing themselves on little fish at the surface, the one taking off has a mouthful of sandeels. Sandeels are important for all sorts of predators including lots of gulls, porpoise and dolphins, if there is a lack of sand eels all these predators will suffer. In… Read More

Here is a picture of quite a small Minke whale which we saw this week. It was really exciting as he (or she) decided to get quite close to the boat at one stage. We think this is quite a young Minke whale and that it is still with its mother, they don’t need to… Read More