Barnacle Geese over Loch Gruinart and Killinallan, Isle of Islay

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Picture of Barnacle Geese in flight over a sea loch with dunes in the distanceA sunny view from the new hide at RSPB Gruinart, looking out towards the dunes at Killinallan. Barnacle Geese flying past having been spooked by something. Mull (with Ben More) and Colonsay also just visible in the haze in the distance.

Mull’s Ben More from Gruinart, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a distant mountain in the evening lightA view from the RSPB bird hide at Gruinart in November 2014. For a brief moment Ben More on distant Mull was visible in a reddish hue, some time around sunset I think. The darker stretch in the middle distance is Colonsay.

The north of Islay with Rhuvaal lighthouse

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Picture of a view over the northern tip of an island with a lighthouse, other islands visible across the seaA panoramic view over the northern end of Islay with Rhuvaal lighthouse at the shore. In the distance towards the left the Isle of Mull with Ben More, the only island Munro outside of Skye. On the far left the northern tip of Colonsay. On the right a tiny bit of Jura, behind it in the distance Scarba.