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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sandra (Taylor)" data-source="post: 1015928" data-attributes="member: 11011">Good to read your report, Capercaillie.  We almost passed in transit.  We returned on 22nd September after a week on Mull, staying in a cottage on the Gruline estate.  I agree with you that the eagles aren't all that easy to see.  I remember before our first visit to Mull a BF member saying just drive down Glen More and look up and you're bound to see one or more!  We've never seen one there.  Had good views on the rocks in Loch na kael and on the beach on the far side too (the Ulva ferry road).  Only seen WTEs at Grasspoint one visit out of four.  This year it got to Wednesday and we hadn't seen any.  Then the magical morning when I went out to the lochside 5 mins from the cottage and saw one sitting in the very top branches of a pine tree (WTE that is).  Watched it for 15 mins.  Then later that day we had a golden eagle near the beginning of the footpath up Loch Ba - the crags up to the right.  Was your cottage part of the reconditioned building on the left as you go over the hump backed bridge on the way past the farm and the fish hatchery? The Benmore estate has quite a few cottages available, I see.  We've booked on the Gruline estate agaian for next September.So after Wednesday we felt we could relax a bit, especially as we had had two good sightings of otters too.I'll get round to writing a report soon.Sandra</blockquote>