We travelled out this way to find some land that may be available for growing plants and keeping cattle...but I feel superstitious about talking about that...so we went to Loch Garten.The knowledgeable amongst you will know this is where the breeding programme for Ospreys started and the loch was featured recently on both Autumn Watch and Ray Mears. Of course there are no osprey at the moment as they are heading off to Africa but I hadn't been to this loch since 1978 (old git that I am) when I worked near here for a summer staying with my grandfather in Carrbridge. I thought it was boring but today I wondered why.
The sun shone, although as you can see, the cloud was down over Craigrowrie, the mountain you can see. This is the mountain at one end of the ridge I have now walked 3 times since moving here.
It was so warm, we were in t-shirts and the dogs took to the water. A beautiful place, so sheltered and serene.
I saw Ospreys twice last year, a nesting one near this loch but on the River Spey banks, high up and distinctive in a tree, hardly hidden at all and at Spey Bay where a lone bird was diving into the sea, just as Ospreys should.
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