Crested Tit in the Cairngorms

Yes, we finally saw one on the last day of our spring visit to the Cairngorms. He only payed two visits to our feeding station but that was enough to get a couple of shots.

Loch an Eilean.

    For our first trip of 2014 we headed north up the A9 to Aviemore. This is Loch an Eilein ( Loch of the island) with its ruined 15th century castle in the far distance. 
    The castle is said to have once been the property of Alexander Stewart the wolf of Badenoch.The Jacobites, retreating from Cromdale in 1690, besieged the castle, which was held by Dame Grizel Mor Grant, widow of the fifth laird Grant. At this time the castle was connected to the shore by a causeway. The causeway was lost when the water level in the loch was raised in the 18th century. 
     When ospreys were driven to extinction by the Victorians, the island castle was the site of one of the last eyries. Unfortunately, although ospreys have returned to Scotland, they have not recolonised their old nesting site here


 

Bailey Meets the Four "" Clock Club

Bailey gets a rub down after his first meeting with the Four "0"clock club.

And Bailey Makes Six

Bailey is the newest addition to the Pigula household, he is a four month old Labradoodle and he really enjoyed his first trip to the seaside.