Another taster trip along Glengarry last week didn't prove as exciting as the previous one - no badgers or goats this time, but the usual red deer in abundance plus whooper swans and goldeneye. They'll no doubt be leaving us for the summer very soon (assuming that winter ever passes!) I'm currently looking out the window at plate sized snowflakes which have been coming down all morning!
A couple of trips up Loch Arkaig produced sightings of one of the ospreys and a black throated diver, so spring is definitely hotting up. There's a lot more insect activity too (or was before the snow came back!), so that should improve the feeding all round.
I had some video footage of Pine marten given to me by Ian & Clare MacLachlan at the Great Glen Lodges (at Kilfinan on Loch Lochy) of a pair of pine marten kittens, taken by their guest Brian Tulley. There's a serious scrap between the siblings at the end, showing just how aggressive these predators are. So much for brotherly love!
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