After ten days without rain, and just in time for the Easter weekend, we've returned to business as usual, with grey skies only occasionally pierced by a ray of sunshine. Not that a little rain has prevented us enjoying the countryside.
Yesterday we walked to the west of the CalMac pier, heading for
Glas Eileann, the grey island, on the south side of Kilchoan Bay. This can be a great area for wildlife, including otters, grey seals, dolphins and sea eagles, but yesterday it seemed strangely empty, so we had to content ourselves....
....with some smaller beauties, like this little bird which I take to be a rock pipit, and....
....a group of these uncommonly bright red common periwinkles.
As we reached
Glas Eileann we put up a pair of Canada geese, probably the same as were feeding along the shore by the shop on Tuesday, birds which....
....must think they're being persecuted, as they were at
Camas nan Geall this morning, enjoying sole rights to the rich feeding in the silage field, when we disturbed them there.
Just below the road a large group of red deer had gathered including....
....a number of young stags, two of which were enjoying some gentle sparring.
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