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The Highlands and Islands Thread
always had dotterel in late may, even when there has been a lot of snow still lying around -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
go into the ranger station and ask for the path to the north corries.takes about 1hr to walk at a steady pace. have always seen them here. good luck -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
i walked up cairngorm right along the top along to ben macdui back through north corres and only seen one distant ptarmigan. but lots of dotterel. on another trek walked up carn ban mor and never seen any ptarmigan but again lots of dotterel. in previous years had lots of ptarmigan at all sights -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
were just back from 2 weeks back in the highlands and also noticed big falls in numbers of wrens, treecreepers, stonechats, seen several dead deer carcasses. talking to one of the rangers on cairngorms and ptarmigan numbers could be down 80% but hard to tell as still alot of snow around on tops... -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
alan you will love this book. i bought mine last year for a trip to skye,cairngorms, north west and east coasts and found it to be a god send!! we are off to nethy brige and gairloch for the next two weeks leaving tomorrow and the BOOK was the first thing packed in the car -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
hope you nailed them to the tree for me to see next week ;) -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
glad things are getting better up there marcus,hopefully be in full flow when im up there in just under two weeks time -
The Highlands and Islands Thread
i would definately recommend the best birdwatching sites ih the highlands by gordon hamlett