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If you have ever wanted to see a Golden Eagle cruising a mountain ridge or an otter hunting the shoreline, then you have an excellent chance of making your dream come true on one of our day tours around the dramatic Isle of Skye.Your Tour Guide is Andy McLean who has been studying and photographing the wildlife of North West Scotland for over 30 years. Bring binoculars if you have them although we do have some you can borrow. Visiting various habitats we have a chance to see:-

Golden Eagles, Otters, White-Tailed Sea Eagles, Basking Sharks, Dolphins, Hen Harriers, Short-Eared Owls, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Grey and Common Seals, Porpoise, Great Northern Divers, Red-Throated Divers, Hares, Great Skuas and many many more, even the odd Minke Whale. Don’t be put off by bad weather as these days can often surprise you with some of the best sightings.

03/11/2026

A day of reflection . . . .

And 3 separate Otters, some WTE’s, a Golden Eagle, some Dolphins, and a Minke Whale.

29/10/2026

We enjoyed watching two Minke Whales yesterday, looked like an adult and a calf. Quite the sight seeing them surface amidst Gannets crashing into the sea.

One of our regular female Otters with her two youngsters was around too. Decent number of both eagles about. And Red Deer of course.

27/10/2026

Despite the rather wet day we had some great sightings yesterday: this Otter was the highlight though, frolicking on the beach in front of us.

19/10/2026

We’ve seen this a few times over the years - at long last captured on camera: an Otter rather annoyed with the White-tailed Eagles stealing its lunch.

Huge thanks to Agnes Werth for getting the shot.

17/10/2026

One our SIX Otters today (minor cheating as it was two different mums, each with two cubs).

Took a while but we had great views of WTE’s today, and a few nice Goldens. Lots of Great Northern Divers starting to turn up.

And sadly a dead whale - although it appears long dead and died at sea rather than stranding. No obvious entanglement either, so hopefully natural causes. I think it’s already been reported but I’ll do so too.

11/10/2026

We get some great views in the autumn 🙂

10/10/2026

Great day out on Thursday - managed to get Golden Eagles, Otters, and a White-tailed Eagle all at the same spot (although the WTE was a bit later in the day when we passed by again).

26/09/2026

Not great weather for the last couple of weeks, but it’s not affected sightings much. If fact we’ve done better on the so called worst days that the clearer ones!

Only the second time I’ve ever seen a Dipper in the sea.

And we had a Sparrowhawk land right in the middle of us as we were stood by the minibus one morning. It grabbed a Starling and then realised it was by our feet! It flew off smartish and the Starling seemed unscathed.

03/09/2026

Two of the three WTE’s that were active in one of the lochs today. Plus a sleepy hiding Otter that was one of three in view at the time. Golden Eagles and Dolphins again today.

25/08/2026

Young WTE that decided to land nice and close to us this morning. Great thing was we were watching an Otter at the same time 🙂

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Portree
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http://www.skyewildlife.com/

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