Wednesday 29 May 2013

Relay wildlife sightings

I was lucky enough to see a wide variety of wildlife on my legs and while I was manning the base early in the morning. At Strathyre, a red squirrel crossed the track in front of me; at Lochinver I watched two otters playing in the bay at low tide while on the sat ‘phone to Miles at 04.30 on Monday morning, at Loch Ailsh Donna and I saw a family of black-throated divers (parents and two tiny chicks) just a few metres from the shore as we were running; and on the drive back to Lochinver from that leg an osprey flew right across the windscreen so we could see the whites of its eyes. What a stunning country Scotland is. Kathy