September 8, 2011 archive

Sep 08 2011

Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011

Scotland Visit Day 1 : Lerrocks Farm : 8th September 2011

The main reason that we had decided to stay in Stirling was to attend the Red Kite feeding at Lerrocks Farm in Doune, Stirlingshire. We had gone to RSPB Inversnaid, on the banks of Loch Lomond, in the morning but we had to leave earlier than we had hoped because, although it was not a great distance From Inversnaid to Doune, the roads were rough and narrow and very slow so we only just made it for the main event of our day which was the 2.30pm start for the 3pm feeding.

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Sep 08 2011

Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011

Scotland Visit Day 1 : RSPB Inversnaid : 8th September 2011

We had the chance to visit family up north so we decided to make a bit of a break of it by staying at some birding places on the way there and back. We drove from Manchester to Stirling on 7th September. We had a couple of things we wanted to do the following day and the first of these was to visit Inversnaid RSPB reserve which is on the edge of Loch Lomond in Stirlingshire. There is a big hotel there – the Inversnaid Hotel – but that it the only thing for miles around as it is very remote and the roads (paths really) that lead there are very narrow and slow to negotiate. From Stirling you head west into the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park and drive along the edge of Loch Ard and then Loch Chon. When you reach Loch Arklet the road gets very interesting and becomes more of a narrow path with lots of pot holes until it ends at Inversnaid.

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