Scotland Trip Day 2 : Grantown on Spey Environs : 27th May 2014
We met for breakfast and the decision based on the weather was that we would spend our first day in the area that surrounds Grantown-on-Spey, an area that includes forest, rivers, glens and grouse moors. We loaded up the minibus and headed off first for Lochindorb. En route we crossed the moors and saw several Red Grouse including a pair of adults with several young that struggled comically to run through the heather. In the more open fields there were very large numbers of nesting Common Gulls (they are indeed “common” here) and Oystercatchers. Curlew flew over and little flocks of Lapwing rose up as we drove along. As we drove past woodland we saw Red Squirrels and Rabbits.