Today's Wildlife Encounter

[Travs]

Our cuckoo arrived on 23rd April and has been driving me demented with its incessant cuckooing. I love it. I live on the bank of a sea loch in North Skye. The Arctic Terns arrived last week along with a bunch of swifts. Absolutely love this time of year. There's a seal colony 200m from us. When we moved here in 2006 there were 6 resident seals. This year I've counted 70! Not sure why they've increased so steadily. There will be more next month when they have their pups. Great fun to watch and really nosey. Was watching about 10 of them swimming down the loch leaping like dolphins.

Neilly have you ever seen anything large in the sea at Skye? i.e Killer Whale etc?

Reason i ask is my uncle lived on Skye and worked on a fishing boat. I don't entirely know where but i'm sure he lived variously at Uig and Glenbrittle.

He absolutely swears that on one offshore fishing trip they found a Great White Shark in their nets. I can't remember any more details than that, i.e dead or alive, whether it was a confirmed identification or whether it may have been a Porbeagle or something...