Memories of Mull: Tobermory

 Tobermory is probably better known to millions of people as Balamory.

When I first visited Mull I stayed with friends in Dervaig. From 1996 onwards we stayed at this cottage.

superb view down the Sound of Mull

from the garden I would sit and watch gannets fishing in the sound, white tailed eagles over the hills, peregrines stooping down into the bay. Great spotted woodpeckers would visit the bird feeders

About a mile away was the lighthouse.

a good place to watch common terns fishing in the sound and watch auks etc, flying past.

This is the Mishnish Lochs where I used to go on an evening bird watching. I used to watch buzzards over the hill tops, red throated divers preening in the loch. Little grebes would be fishing, common sandpipers were walking around the edge of the locks. 

This is Tobermory harbour, Good for glaucous gulls and carrion crows.

This is the view from a hill above the Mishnish Lochs.

It is over 1000 feet above sea level and is a difficult walk of nearly 6 miles, but the view is worth it.