The lane that leads up from our house to Golspie Tower and then on into the Beinn Bhraggie woods has proved a treasure-trove of wildflowers and continued this morning with....
....this stunning flower, blood-drop emlets, which, as one might guess from its vivid colours, isn't native but has invaded us from from more exotic climes, specifically Chile. No distance on we found....
....orange hawkweed, a wildflower which, despite its colours, is native to Scotland.
We diverted from our route briefly to check on the five heath spotted orchids we found the other day but, on continuing a few steps further down the muddy track....
....stumbled upon the biggest hoard of this species ever, perhaps a hundred or more crowding a grassy bank - yet a few metres further on there was not an orchid to be seen.
We walked steadily up through the woodland until we came out onto the open moor, noticing how the variety of wildflowers dropped off, the land dominated by grasses....
....and heathers just coming into bloom, interspersed with the little yellow tormentil flowers and bog cotton.
Then, on our way down, to make my day, we come across these large red damselflies 'in tandem'.
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