{"id":25360,"date":"2019-08-24T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=25360"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:45:16","slug":"the-island-of-mull-17th-22nd-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/the-island-of-mull-17th-22nd-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The Island of Mull – 17th – 22nd August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spent a few days away on the Island of Mull from 17th to 22nd August. The weather was a mixed bag of rain, wind and some sunshine. Fortunately the weather didn’t disrupt our trip to Iona and the boat trip for White-tailed Eagle that I had pre-booked before we left. This was the highlight of our trip without doubt, so a big thank you to Martin Kievers of Mull Charters.<\/p>\n

Half a dozen Golden Eagle, several Otter, small numbers of Common Seal, a single Manx Shearwater, Black Guillemot and 7 White-tailed Eagle were the main highlights. The heavy rain certainly hampered our search for the islands wildlife.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos of our memorable trip to Mull.<\/p>\n

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Tobermory – Our apartment was located in the bright red house<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Old boats at Salen Bay, Salen<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Old boats at Salen Bay, Salen<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The beautiful island of Iona<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Iona<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A view from Iona looking back to Mull<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Red Boat, Iona<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Post Office, Iona<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ben More from Ulva Ferry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Golden Eagle<\/strong> – one of 6 individuals we saw during our trip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Golden Rod – Tobermory<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Eorsa, Loch na Keal from Ulva Ferry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Loch na Keal – Mull’s fisherman have a hard life<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Common Seal – Lock Tuath<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Common Seal – Loch Tuath<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Immature Shag and Cormorant – Salen Bay, Salen<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Eagle – I spent a stunning morning with these beauties<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Eagle<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Eagle – one of 3 females we saw during our mornings trip<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of my favourite images of the trip<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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My favourite image of the trip<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent a few days away on the Island of Mull from 17th to 22nd August. The weather was a mixed bag of rain, wind and some sunshine. Fortunately the weather didn’t disrupt our trip to Iona and the boat trip for White-tailed Eagle that I had pre-booked before we left. This was the highlight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdsof2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}