Skye Common Seals and Coastal Birds.

We joined a boat trip out from Portree to watch and photograph the Sea Eagles taking fish offerings from the boat between Portree and the island of Raasay.

This proved to be disappointing and I was not impressed with the boat layout or her crews performance in their lack of effort to tempt the adult Sea Eagles into taking fish to feed a juvenile eagle that was present and screaming to be fed.

Our consolation prize came by way of a group of perhaps a dozen very photogenic and relaxed Common Seals that were obviously well used to posing for the passing boats.

Earlier in the morning while waiting for the first boat trip to leave I worked on a Cormorant that was fishing in the calm harbour water which produced an interesting surface dive composition and an incoming Grey Heron made a very close fly-by across the Jetty

The above image of the hungry juvenile Sea Eagle was as good as it got for Sea Eagle photography on this boat trip and this would have been even more disappointing had I not had a very nice inland Sea Eagle encounter while working with Stewart Dawber the previous day