A Day out in the Highlands!

 Now that we live where we do we had a day out up in the East Cairngorms, we drove up to Braemar spending a fair amount of time stopping between Glenshee Ski Centre and Braemar, mainly looking for Hare and Dippers, of which we found neither!

What we did find:

A Stoat carrying 'lunch' I'm guessing it's a Leveret, but difficult to tell, but it was coming doen from the hillside where we normally see Mountain Hares.

Meadow pipit

Common Sandpiper

Meadow Pipit

Wheatear

Red Grouse

We were taken by surprise when an Osprey flew over us flying along Clunie Water.

We popped into Braemar the carried on down to the Linn of Dee, where we had lunch overlooking the Dee. Seeing a few Greylags, Lapwing and Siskin.

By now it was time to start heading back, but instead of going directly we went vis RSPB Loch Kinnordy.

Goldfinch:

An Osprey flew through, being harassed by Black-headed Gulls.

A small group of five Pink-footed Geese were on the Loch, these two came out for a few minutes.

One of the main reasons for 'dropping by' Kinnordy was for the Red Squirrels and this one didn't disappoint us. 😊

Quite a few small birds around, this Chaffinch posed nicely,

we also saw our first Willow Warbler of the year which was nice.

So a few scenic shots to round the day off: