I've used up all the superlatives about Scottish landscapes and lochs in recent posts, so here are just a few photos to sweep up the remaining highlights of our Easter week on the west coast near Oban.
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| Drake Eider in Oban Harbour |
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| Female Eider, Oban Harbour |
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| After a Golden Eagle-less day on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, the following day we saw one cruising over the coast road a few miles south of Oban. An emergency stop and fumble with the camera produced this photograph - I hoped it would circle, but as is often the way of the Golden Eagle, it pressed on purposefully |
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| Raven frequented the point at Ardnamurchan |
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| A pure-looking Rock Dove near Ardnamurchan Point, though I grant you it would have looked more convincing on a cliff face than a telegraph wire |
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| The only Black Guillemot of the week which was still in winter plumage - photographed distantly from our cottage on the shore of Loch Creran |
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| ...and seen here passing a moulting Great Northern Diver like ships in the night. Not bad garden birds. |
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| Eiders were also flying into the loch past the house in the morning and out again in the evening |
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| Roe Deer near the cottage |
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| Evening reflections and ripples on Loch Creran |
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| Looking towards the head of Loch Creran from the cottage |
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| View from the top of the Glencoe skilift - I was hoping for a Ptarmigan but to no avail |
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| A direct approach to managing dog disturbance on Ardnamurchan. Probably a bit radical for the Dorset heaths. |
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| A misty morning at Corran Ferry |
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| Sunset looking towards Mull over Loch Creran |
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