The golden eagle having been voted Scotland’s most favourite wild animal
On our private, small group, tailor-made tours, we cover a lot of wildlife locations, including visits to experience (and on request drop offs at / pick ups from):
- Auchingarrich wildlife park
- Basking shark tours optional special interest additions on request and can be included on our Westcoast trips
- Beavers – Perthshire rivers beaver walks & Tayvallich/Westcoast and the remote Argyll peninsulas – wild, stunningly beautiful location to spot wildlife Knapdale (Tayvallich beaver project)
- Blair Drummond safari park – Blair Drummond
- locations throughout the Cairngorms nationalpark
- Chanonry Point Moray Firth dolphin colony (Black Isle) – one of the best land-based place in Europe for dolphin watching due to the narrows, perfect location for our mini-bus, somewhere where you can’t get to on a big coach
- Dunvegan castle/Skye seal boat tours – Dunvegan castle
- Edinburgh Royal botanic gardens
- Edinburgh zoo
- Gairloch whale & wildlife watching can be including in our Northwest Highlands tours Hebridean whale cruises – during the pre-Covid summer seasons up to 2019 – each month during the summer, they have spotted over 800 cetaceans (dolphins, whales & porpoises), their whale/dolphin spotting success rate of any cruise is over 95%
- Gardens – if you are into botany, plants and flowers, join our tours along the mild Scottish Gulf stream coast with subtropical plants & gardens
- Glasgow botanic gardens
- Hermaness national nature reserve on our Shetland tours – Unst, Shetland’s most northerly inhabited island for the best cliff & seabird walks with views of the Muckle Flugga most northerly lighthouse
- John Muir trust wild places – a visit to any John Muir trust location
- Kincraig Highland wildlife park
- locations throughout the Loch Lomond & Trossachs nationalpark
- Loch Lomond islands
- Marine protected areas
- Mountain (snow) hares
- North Berwick seabird centre (optional Bass Rock visits) – Scottish seabird centre
- North Ronaldsay ancient Viking Soay sheep (a visit and walk on North Ronaldsay can be included on our longer Orkney tours) – North Ronaldsay Soay sheep
- Osprey Centre Scotland (Boat of Garten / Cairngorm nationalpark) – Loch Garten RSPB nature reserve
- Otter spotting on our coastal & islands tours (highest chance of viewing on our longer and Shetland Islands tours) – Otters
- Puffin spotting (highest chance of viewing on our Shetland & Outer Hebrides tours during April to early July) – Puffin viewing in Scotland
- Red deer – we see them particularly at dawn & dusk and during winter when they graze at lower levels, but all over, one of our walks in Knoydart we saw a herd of 150 and in Arisaig they were grazing on salty seaweed
- Red squirrels
- Reindeer centre & a pre-bookable visit/feeding session of the semi-wild Scottish reindeer herd
- RSBP sites – visits to any Scottish RSBP nature reserve
- Scottish national nature reserves
- Scottish wildcat centre in Newtonmore
- visits to any Scottish wildlife trust reserve
- Seabird cliffs viewing areas throughout Scotland
- Seal viewing locations (harbour & common seals from a safe distance) throughout Scotland – Seals in Scotland
- St. Andrews botanic gardens & butterflies
- Trees for life
- Woodland trust sites – a visit to any Woodland trust site
- & many more
Unicorn Tours is a specialist for wildlife tours.
