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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capercaillie71" data-source="post: 1015865" data-attributes="member: 32437">Loch Don/GrasspointThis small estuary/sea loch at the eastern end of the island, just south of Craignure ferry terminal is a well-known site for Sea Eagles.  We visited twice, with the first visit being to Grasspoint on the south side of the loch.  As we were walking from the parking area to the point, I got a brief, distant view of a Sea Eagle flying low over the estuary.  It was an adult with a white tail, but disappeared behind a low hill and didn’t reappear.  By the time we got to the point, there was no sign of it.The second visit was to the north side of Loch Don, where a road leads to Gorsten Farm.  From the parking area at the end of the public road there is a track which soon splits into two waymarked paths to ‘Grasspoint View’ and ‘Duart View’.  The ‘Grasspoint View’ path overlooks the estuary and we didn’t see any eagles from there.  However, the ‘Duart View’ path heads north just before Gorsten Farm is reached and gives views to the coast between Loch Don and Duart Castle.  Scanning this coast with binoculars revealed two adult sea eagles, resting on rocks.  One was on a group of small offshore islets (Eilean a’ Mhadaidh) and the other was about 800 metres to the north.  I managed to get a distant photo of the second bird from about 600m away.</blockquote>