The Tourist Guide to Glendale, Isle of Skye


Black Guillemot at Neist Point.

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In Summer, the stunning coastal waters and cliffs around Glendale are home to many hundreds of guillemots, razorbills, fulmars, kittiwakes and shags.

Puffins are also regularly seen off Neist Point in small numbers, although they do not nest on Skye.

The beautiful black guillemot, with its white wing-patches and red legs, is resident all year round.


Fulmar at Neist Point.

Gannets

Gannets are very common in Glendale and they can be seen daily, diving close to the shore and Pier in Loch Pooltiel, between April and October.

It is a spectacular sight to watch them plunging head-first into the water from great heights on the long Summer evenings.


Gannet in Loch Pooltiel.

Skuas

Great Skuas, commonly known as 'bonxies', and the daintier Arctic Skuas are now being seen regularly at Neist Point between May and September. Bonxies also regularly come into Loch Pooltiel to harass the gulls.

Shearwaters

Manx Shearwaters feed in huge numbers off Neist Point in late Summer.

Recent Bird Sightings

18th Oct 2017

First redwings back this morning, with 15 at the Three Chimneys, Colbost that headed off towards Skinidin.

17th Oct 2017

Our local female white-tailed eagle made two terrific full-tilt dives at something on the shore below the bottom road in Lower Milovaig between 12:20pm and 12:45pm and kept returning several times to the same place.

16th Oct 2017

A herd of around 15-20 whooper swans went south over Lower Milovaig at 10am.

Our male white-tailed eagle was circling low over the bottom road in Lower Milovaig at mid-day.

More recent wildlife sightings