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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capercaillie71" data-source="post: 1015856" data-attributes="member: 32437">I know there are plenty of other reports on Mull, but having just returned from a week's holiday there, I thought I would add my experiences in case they are of any interest to others planning a trip.It wasn't really a birding trip, but I was keeping an eye out for eagles in particular and succeeded as far as that was concerned, seeing a total of six White-tailed Sea Eagles and three Golden Eagles during the week.  It's easy to get the impression from some reports that you will find eagles at every turn while driving around Mull, but my personal experience is that it requires a degree of perseverance and luck to find them, and there were 2 or 3 days during the week when we didn’t see any.  Stopping and scanning suitable areas (small offshore islands for sea eagles and mountain ridges for golden eagles) with binoculars seemed to be the most useful method.  Just driving around and hoping they would appear was not a very effective way of finding anything other than buzzards (sightings of which outnumbered eagles by about 10 to 1).  If you were only visiting for a day or two, it would certainly be worth considering one of the wildlife tours of the island, as presumably the guides have day-to-day knowledge of the birds’ whereabouts. The other thing is that the views were not particularly close – the sea eagles were all between 500m and 1km away, while the Golden Eagles were seen from distances of 1.5km and 4km!  A telescope is certainly essential for decent views (or even identification) at those distances.However, if you spend a few days on the island and don’t have unrealistic expectations of the kind of views you might get, then it is certainly a rewarding place for eagle-watching, and a beautiful place to visit even without eagles.  I’ll describe all the sites where I saw eagles in the following posts.</blockquote>

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