Week Ends

Friday evening and week 1 of our trip comes to an end. Tomorrow it's off back to Aberdeen to drop Dee's Gran and then we make our way Westward across to Fort William and our week camping.

Just in time for the weather to turn that little bit colder!

The last week we've spent our time taking days out with Dee's Gran visiting Stonehaven, Montrose, Banchory and Balmoral. Enjoyable but due to Gran's age we haven't been able to take time walking the wonderful countryside. Next week though that all changes.
Our first stop is 4 days at Glen Nevis camp site, 3 miles from Fort William near the base of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK. From there we move south down the coast and then take the ferry on Wednesday afternoon from Oban across to the Isle of Mull, around a 40 minute trip. We plan lots of walking and birding and have come well prepared.
I know that I keep posting pictures of the bird life around here but the picture on display above just had to be shown. While travelling on the lower coast road yesterday enroute to Montrose Dee suddenly spotted this Tawny Owl sitting proudly on a post right next to the road. Having made a u-turn, amazingly I snapped this picture from the drivers seat just before he took flight into the woods opposite. It turned out really well. Here's to more birdie pictures next week.