I'm Hannah Stitfall, and I'm on a quest to photograph Scotland's Big Five,
The five most incredible animals on any photographers hit list.
Now I'm hoping to see Orca, Red Deer,
Red Squirrels and Otters.
But today's mission somewhere on these lochs,
I'm hoping to see the White Tailed Eagle.
Now, Mull is known as a stronghold for birds of prey.
And here you can find Buzzards, Golden Eagles, Hen Harriers, Short Eared Owls,
and the White Tailed Eagle.
Now, White Tailed Eagles are a huge reintroduction success story.
And Mull has the highest density of them than anywhere in Britain.
And hopefully today we're going to see some.
I've decided to take a boat trip to give me the best chance of spotting White Tailed Eagles,
And I'm joined on board by my new friend Monty.
We're going to go find some white tailed eagles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know.
I know.
So coming up just over here, it looks like it's a group of Common Seals.
Me and Monty keep our eyes peeled, but there's still no sign of White Tailed Eagles yet.
So White Tailed Eagles are monogamous, which means that they pair for life,
And this rocky habitat behind us is the perfect place for them to build their nests.
Now these nest sites will be used for generation after generation.
And when they build them, they're built with twigs, branches and lined with grass,
and they can be massive around six foot across.
And that's the same size as a double bed.
Sometimes on the boat, they'll throw out any extra fish they have,
which will hopefully give me a good chance to spot them.
Is that, is that one over there?
Oh, oh my goodness.
He's coming in on me, it's right above us right now.
Look at the size of it, it's huge.
Here it comes. Oh, did you see that?
Eight foot wingspan.
That's our largest bird of prey we have here in the UK.
Absolutely massive.
Did you see, Did you see that, when they fly down,
They can hit the water at speeds of 70 kilometers an hour.
and you may, have saw then they come in talons first,
they just pluck the fish out of the water.
Did you see how big it was?
That's mad.
So we've got an Eagle coming in right now.
I'm going to try and throw a fish,
And hopefully it catches my fish out of the water.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
It Got my fish.
Yes, I told you,
I told you I could do it.
Yes. Where's it gone now?
And then even more Eagles arrive.
Oh, my God.
Oh, oh, my God.
White Tailed Eagles were once extinct in the UK due to hunting, but thanks to a reintroduction
project, they now have 22 breeding pairs on Mull, which is amazing.
Well, I'll tell you what, that was an absolutely incredible experience,
and after never seeing a White Tailed Eagle before in real life,
that absolutely blew my mind their sheer size and power.
And I tell you what, I did get a couple of photographs that I really like, but this one,
in particular, I think it's my favorite because you can see the sheer size,
That's our largest bird of prey found in the UK.
Absolutely magnificent.
And that is a photograph ticked off the list.