Black Headed Gull strutting around the van in the morning

Handa Island

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June 22nd 2017
22 June 2017 Another superb day with the birds, but we are not becoming twitchers! Handa Island is a wildlife reserve managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust with one of the largest populations of nesting seabirds in Western Europe. To get there we drove about 20 miles south through wild country dotted with lochs and a backdrop of impressive mountains to the tiny settlement of Tarbet, whe ... read more

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