Wildlife

imageCeomara Highland Cottages are ideally placed for the keen wildlife spotter.

Depending on the season, from the cottage windows many species of garden and coastal birds can be viewed. The ground just outside the garden fence is a feeding area for curlew, oyster catchers and greenlag geese.

Each year in the spring, the geese breed locally and by June can be regularly seen escorting their young across the bay. When they are old enough to fly, they often graze just the other side of the cottage fence. Herons can be seen patiently fishing at the waters edge.

Many species of garden bird visit the feeders dotted around the garden, the woodpecker is one of the regular visitors.imageIn the spring cuckoos can be heard calling in the woods behind the cottages as well as the woodpecker drumming and the snipe calling in the evenings.

The garden is also visited by hedgehogs, frogs and a weath of insects (including the dreaded midge!) A pinemartin lives in the area and there is a chance of seeing otters locally.

At the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve and around Loch Maree you may be lucky enough to see white tailed and golden eagles, the Scottish crossbill, ptarmigan and mountain hare can be found on the mountain trails.

During the year when the days are shorter, very many red deer can be seen especially close to the road beside Loch Maree. Several do roam towards Shieldaig and Badachro.

There are many places a short walk from imagethe cottages where you can sit on the rocks, looking out at Gairloch Bay and see diving birds, porpoise the chance of otters and of course the spectacular sunsets.

Boat trips from Gairloch Harbour and Loch Maree are another opportunity to look for diving birds, puffins, seals, minke whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Some tips as to the best paces to spot our local wildlife are given in the folders in each holiday cottage.


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