A great Tour today with a total of 8 separate Golden Eagles seen. They included the iconic views of birds drifting over rocky crags and skimming mountain ridges. But one pair in particular gave us fantastically good close views. First they played a bit of hide and seek as they vanished against the hillside. Next gliding in the open sky. Then one stooped at a lamb but it was too slow, the lamb too quick and the ewe too vigilant. However the eagle landed on the hilltop and posed for us for a while before hopping a short distance to a bit of carrion, seemingly unnoticed before, for a spot of lunch. Majestic though the Golden's were I was keen to add at least one Sea Eagle, and right at the end of our day we spotted a youngster sat on a nearby hill. Huge in the telescope but appearing even bigger when it flew. It too went down on some carrion with a group of Ravens but soon departed giving yet more great views as it slowly left the area. . . . . And I got bitten by the first midge of Spring!
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