Glass bottom boat trips - Wildlife Diary
2011 entries .... 2012 coming soon
Scotland's only semi-submersible glass bottom boat
Wildlife seen during the 2011 season -
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| March - APRIL 2011 |
Great Common dolphin sightings with a 'super' pod of 150 plus individuals all around the boat.
The Little Dab Chick that first appeared in Kyleakin Harbour in October 2009, is still there now, but with 2 friends. The Eider ducks that returned to Kyle in the Autumn 2010 are still in the area and no doubt getting ready for the breeding season, which usually involves a lot of squabbles between rival males over the various females.. Two red throated Divers and two black thjroated divers spotted around the fork rocks for several weeks now. A number of red breasted mergansers and gooseanders also in the blind sound area, their favourite spot. |
MAY 2011
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A quick list of what we've seen so far - Puffins, razor bills, guillamots, red throated divers, great northern divers, black guillamots, little grebe, arctic skua, common tern, herons, merganzers, mallards, lesser black backed gulls, greater black backed gulls, common gulls, herring gulls, kittiwakes, black headed gulls, ravens, hooded crows, oyster catchers, ringed plovers, curlews, greylag geese, rock doves, shags, cormorants, otters, common and grey seals, bottle nose dolphins, porpoise & mink . common jellyfish, lions mane jellyfish, numerous comb jelly fish, herring, pollock, dog fish, wrasse, cod, whiting, sand eels, mackeral. |
| June 2011 |
Bottle nose Dolphin sightings this month, same familt group we usually see. 6 - 8 individuals |
July 2011 |
A lot of porpoise sighted in Lochalsh with calves. Also a minke whale came through the channel |
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| October 2011 |
Another bad year for the ground nesting birds in Lochalsh. A great year for otters on average 1 sighting per day. Underwater has been good, with the return of the jellyfish and lots of sandeels, herring, pollock and mackeral. Apart from May, the weather was not bad virtually all year, with only 5 days we didn't operate due to weather.
The Kyle pontoon was once again removed 1 month early by the local harbour master and we aplogise to all our customers who were inconvienienced by this. |
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