ERIBOLL ESTATE

Eriboll is an area of special geological interest and sees geologists of all ages and abilities visiting to study the Moine Thrust which has some of the oldest geological features known. The Moine Thrusts runs from Loch Eriboll to the Isle of Skye.

The loch extends 10 miles from the head to the mouth and is the deepest sealoch in the United Kingdom. It has been of great importance as an exercise area and anchorage to the Navy and as a training area for the Military in general.

The Estate is home to a wide variety of birds and is ideal ground for dedicated bird watchers to view species identified by the RSPB and seen by a number of guests in our holiday cottages, ideal for spotting breeding species of Golden Eagle, Golden Plover, Greenshank, Merlin, Osprey, Peregrine, Dunlin, red and black throated divers, an abundance of Owls, Swallows, starlings, Woodcock, Snipe, Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff/Willow Warbler, Wagtail, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, great northern divers, Kestrel, Buzzards. Eider, Oystercatchers, Gulls and Cormorant to name but a few.