Ardnamurchan: first few days

My long-awaited trip to the Ardnamurchan Peninsula has finally come. At the weekend, we drove up from Wessex to Glenborodale on the banks of Loch Sunart. On our first day, while doing a recce in the canoe, we came across a female otter foraging in the loch. It was oblivious of us until we had drifted in to just a few metres of her. Pine martens, porpoises and red deer have provided us with some close encounters. Tomorrow, we will be completing a recce of some sites on Mull before getting down to some hard-core waiting and watching in the next few days. Here's a picture of one of the locations that is close to an occupied holt and a favourite foraging site for the local female.

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