Loyal spent the first half of July on the moorland south-west of Kinbrace in Sutherland and then on the 17th flew east and then north to spend the rest of the month on the Knockfin Heights.

Range in July

Loyal has spent most of the time either north-west or south-west of Kinbrace although on June 11th she went south-west to Craig Mhor

May 18th – June 12th

Loyal flew south from her usual Flow Country area to the River Helmsdale and then on 10th April west to Altnaduin. On 11th April she made a long flight to the north-west passing Loch Meadie at 1 PM and reaching Cape Wrath at 4 PM. She roosted overnight about 2 km south of the lighthouse and next day flew back passing the south end of Loch Meadie  at 1 PM and she was south of Ben Armine by evening. On the 14th she flew north past Morven to her usual haunts and on the 20th flew further north-west to the moors east of Bighouse to 21st April.

On 28th to 30th of March Loyal left the usual areas and flew down to Ben Armine but quickly returned to her main haunts west of Morven and north to Forsinaird.

March 16th to April 6th

Loyal left her usual area of Flow Country on 5th March and flew north-west across Sutherland to Cape Wrath where she stayed from 7th to 13th March, she then returned and by 15 March was near Ben Armine

Feb 19th – March 15th

Loyal flew south from Caithness on February 11th and roosted west of Craiggie and next day flew north to Badanloch area; then back to an area north of Scibberscross to the 15th before flying back to the Caithness flow country.

February 2nd to 24th

Loyal has remained all month in area of moors between Morven and Forsinaird – Altnabreac.

Loyal is a young female eaglet we satellite tagged at her nest on Hope & Loyal Estates of Wildland Ltd Estates in North Sutherland  in June 2014.  On 29^th June I went to the nest site with Thomas MacDonell (Director of Conservation Wildland Ltd) and Paul Butterworth and colleagues, who had already ringed the chicks. We tagged this eagle with sat tag 129017 and on this date she weighed 5.75 kg – the heavier chick. The parents had been feeding fulmars to the two eaglets. Her sibling is Hope.

Loyal was north of the Ben Griams 8th to 10th of December, and then moved to Borrobol and Armine to 17th December, when she flew east and spend the rest of the month ranging in all directions around Morven.

December 8th – 29th

Loyal was in usual large area around Morven until 6th December, then to Strathnaver and back to Ben Griams, then south to Borrobol

November 22nd to December 13th