30th August 2017

Bunessan Primary School have now named our chick at Tiroran Community Forest after visiting for a day of fun and learning with The Mull and Iona Ranger Service and Mull Eagle Watch.

Children got messy making plaster casts of animal hoof prints along the forest tracks before learning about dinosaurs – the ancestors of eagles – with Emily and Kate from the Ranger Service. Over at the eagles hide, they…

16th August 2017 

At last, after a long and nerve-wracking wait, the chick at Tiroran Community Forest has successfully made her first flight.

Tiroran chick in the nest at four weeks old

On the afternoon of Friday the 11^th, I arrived at the hide and was greeted by the sight of an empty nest. Nothing was seen of the family until a little later when I had a quick peek through the scope and spotted a pair of conspicuous…