Black Guillemot: Our trip to Mull started at Oban, known as the "Gateway to the Isles where we stayed in the Backpackers hostel with comfy beds and shared rooms we started the trip with a troubled night as not long after getting tucked up our room mates scrambled in and started drinking whisky and rummaging around like a pack of dogs on the hunt for a missing bone.
Unsurprisingly we were up early and headed out to see the famously tame black guillemot.
It's only in the pretty Scottish town of Oban that you can get down to eye level with black guillemots and you can witness their daily activities in a busy town centre rather than out at sea.
The black guillemots, or Tysties as they are sometimes known, nest in the harbour wall along the Esplanade and in the North Harbour and regularly sit right alongside the walkway.
So it was Gary Edwards 40th earlier in the month and with a jam packed schedule of birthday related celebrations I planned a bit of s surprise get away to Mull for him as he needed corncrake and golden eagle.
The rain made photographing the black guillemot pretty difficult but with subjects that are this tame you can't but end up with something decent, I was stunned with just how close you can get to them.
