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Scotland Holiday Day 7 – 12th July 2012 : Mull

Scotland Holiday Day 7 – 12th July 2012 : Mull

On our seventh day of holiday – our sixth day on Mull – we decided to have a more leisurely day and to drive around a few parts of the island that were on our “to visit” list that we hadn’t seen yet. We decided to start with Loch Frisa which is, of course, the home of the original pair of White-tailed Sea Eagles that were introduced on Mull. We took the Dervaig road from Tobermory and parked the car just off the road in a little car park and started to walk down to the west end of the loch. The left side of the path was rocky hillocks and the right hand side was brambly scrub land and bog. The time of year was not particularly good for birding it being a little late in the season but there were still plenty of birds popping up briefly from the undergrowth.

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