The first sea eagle chick born on Loch Broom in Wester Ross has become a major visitor attraction.
The chick, the first recorded in the area for 100 years, has been delighting passengers aboard the Summer Queen tour boat out of Ullapool.
A spokeswoman for the company said that it hoped to monitor the chick and mother in conjunction with the RSPB Sea Eagle Project.
Sea eagles were only returned to the UK following a reintroduction project in the west of Scotland, which began on the isle of Rum in 1975.
Since then the species has been steadily recovering and RSPB Scotland experts believe there are now as many “flying barn-doors”, as they are affectionately known, in the UK as there were around 150 years ago.
Previously the country’s last native white-tailed eagle was shot in Shetland in 1918.
But the reintroduction of white-tailed eagles to Scotland has attracted criticism from some farmers and crofters, worried about the impact the birds could have on their lambs.
