I have received a few emails asking for more shots of our snow covered Cairngorms, I must admit these photos were requested from down south, (of which I was resident until moving up here 12 years ago) & of course down there if they have an inch of snow they think they are living in the Arctic. . So today I took a few photos from within the house of the birds & then on our walk up to Loch Moraig
We started our hour long walk in lovely sunshine, but halfway back the snow began to fall on us & we ended up looking like snow man & women.
On our walk we will always come across this small herd of cows who have the freedom of the moors & although well fed with silage, not a place I would choose to be this time of the year. So the first shot is of one of the herd.
2/ is one of the few Silver Birch that scatter the glen, covered in snow, but still showing up against the snowy background.
3/ t06/ are of birds taken through the kitchen window, the absolute mass of birds we have in the garden each day are costing me a fortune to feed, but so worth it. I am not exaggerating when I say we have upwards of a hundred birds in the garden every single day.
3/ is 4 Long Tail Tits & a Blue Tit on one of 5 peanut feeders in the garden. These delicate little birds are only regular with us during the winter, but so welcome, such sociable birds, not many other species would allow other species to feed with them without a superiority squabble, but they do as is evident with the Blue Tit.
4/ Is a Great Tit posing nicely for me on the stump, keeping it’s legs up out of the snow.
5/ A Blue Tit on the feeder which is 6 inches from the kitchen window, hence the pale shot caused by the glass reflection.
6/ This little Blue Tit decided it wanted to see those weird humans in their nest keeping nice & warm.
7/ Half way up our walk we looked across the glen & on a very distant hill we saw this mass of Red Deer stag. This is when I wished I had my good camera with my long lens on (camera repaired & back with me next Tuesday) because this old one does not show them very clearly. I have enlarged it & managed to count approx. 135 stags in the herd. Also on the way back on the next hill was another herd of about 60, but due to the snow starting to fall I never got a shot of them.
Hope this quenches your thirst for snow shots & roll on Tuesday when I can provide a better quality of photos.
