No ducks.

This pond is very scenic and usually full of ducks etc which staff from the Craiglynne hotel often (daily?) feed with their cast off bread. Now it is iced over but not frozen. The temperature was quite high today and the ground was still soft under the snow. I have taken at least 30 other pictures but it takes so long to load them that I am restricting myself.

Curling only takes place in Inverness now. Despite the seemingly hard winters of the last 2 years, the pond is neglected in the recreational use. And as for the water fowl...I don't know where they have gone. There are very few on the river due to the fast flow at the moment... but they must be somewhere around. So instead, here is a dipper in the middle of the river on the fishing pier.