DID PRIME MINISTER CATCH GLIMPSE OF SEA EAGLES DURING SHORT HOLIDAY ON SCOTTISH COAST?

Did holidaying couple forget binoculars?

HATS off to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and fiancee Carrie Symonds on their choice of summer holiday location.

The remote wrest coast of Scotland is seldom less than fantastic for watching birds and other wildlife.

With luck, bird species likely to have been visible included eagles - white-tailed, golden or both.

 On their hikes,  they may well have encountered skylarks, meadow pipits, linnets, yellow or grey wagtails and maybe, on the marshier terrain, golden plover, curlew and common sandpiper.

Out to sea, there would have been gannets , skuas, terns, gulls and eider duck as well as herring and black-backed gulls. 

Guillemots, puffins and razorbills might also have been in view - and perhaps the occasional peregrine overhead.

However, their terrier, Dylan, was off the lead so he will probably have chased off sand-feeding waders such as dunlin, knot, ringed plover, oystercatcher, whimbrel and godwit.

At this time last year, she was a celebrity visitor to the British Birdfair at Rutland Water, near Stamford.

The seas hold for her a special fascination and she will doubtless have been scanning the water s for sightings of whales and porpoises.

However, there may have been an omission. Judging from the photographs, the couple forgot to take with them their binoculars.

Unfortunately, the couple who were with baby son Wilfred had to cut short their holiday break after the location was revealed in the Press, making their security vulnerable.

* Photo: Courtesy Carrie Symonds/Instagram