Yesterday was such a mild day, rather cloudy, but glimpses of that big glowing ball in the sky that gives the Cairngorms such wonderful light this time of the year, not much heat, but a good light. During our daily walk managed to capture these images.
First is our neighbours home Blair Castle, timed it so well to get that magical light shining down on it. As you can see the Autumnal colours are reaching their peak, though the strong winds we had last week seem to have blown a lot of leaves of the trees prematurely. This view is not used a great deal for advertising the castle, as there is also a good spot in a lay-by on the A9, which many photographers use. Plus the fact that this view is on a neighbouring estate.
The second shot is of the geese that are arriving to stay the winter, on our hour walk yesterday we must have seen at least 500 birds flying over. For days now they have been flying in & when I came home last night (in the dark) I could still here loads coming over our house. Most probably taking advantage of the near full moon to assist them.
Third shot is of the small area of young Silver Birch & how over the year we have seen them changing, now in this splendid golden yellow hue. A bit disappointed as this area you can nearly always reckon to see at least two Roe Deer & with that background they would have stood out well. Thinking about it , that is most probably why they are not there, not much camouflage for them.
Lastly this is the biggest clump of fungi I have ever seen, we just stood & stared in wonder at such a site. I know it is a great year for fungi, but, that is staggering, there was a further two stumps behind these which had just as many. Not much-room for many more. 🙂
