mullbirds blog

The cold weather we have been having for the past few weeks has given me a real treat., I have had a Water Rail visiting my garden for the l...

A trip through Glen More today and I found six Snow Buntings on the road verge side busy feeding as best they could. They wre at the highes...

Autumn is here and stalking on the hills of the island has started, so please take note and keep off the hills. There are plenty of good bir...

There was a rare hummingbird hawk moth at Salen today, by the shops and feeding from honeysuckle, also another was reported at Craignure ju...

A trip down to Fidden with my friend Kevin today. There were lots of white wagtails amongst Pied wagtails and a bar tailed godwit allowed us...

At this time of year our birds are begining to migrate south, indeed some have already left. followers of this blog can use it to report any...

We had a couple of Osprey over the loch on 25th, fishing success for one of them which then flew to the 'Gorsten' end of the loch to...

I just wanted to take a moment to express sadness at the tragic loss of Mike Madders and his young son. Mike lived on Mull at Grasspoint Cot...

Following the success of the getting the council to delay cutting of the verges, has meant that at least those flowers have been able to se...

I have now found that the council will not now continue with any cutting of the grass verges until a new start date of 20th July (which is g...

Police hunt wild orchid diggers 6th July 2009 A number of orchids were uprooted and found in bags A police investigation is under way afte...

my hobby horse: once again our 'enviromentally friendly' council have contracted to cut the roadside verges at this time of year. Ri...

15th June 2009. I have just received a report of a Hawfinch in a local garden in Calgary, Isle of Mull. This is a first record for Mull of t...

May is a great month and this year has been exceptional here on mull. At Craignure camp site on 9th was an Ortolan Bunting, a very scarce bi...

On Glen Forsa shoreline today were 25 White Wagtails, a dozen Meadow Pipits plus Skylarks. I helped my friends Arthur and Pam Brown on a Tet...

At Fidden there were 23 Black tailed Godwit passing through, kindly reported by Bryan Rains (Wild about Mull) I had a great day out down at ...

Spring has arrived, although you would not believe it by the awful weather wqe are having, it's been wild wet and windy. Our first sprin...

There is a 'rare' White billed Diver on Loch na Keal, it was there again yesterday. Was first found at Laggan Bay on 1st March, then...

It's a grey and damp day here on Mull today. A trip round loch na Keal the other day found several Great northern Diver, I counted 8 Sla...