On a grey, rather damp day we walked in the forestry on the slopes below Beinn Bhraggie, with views out across Golspie's playing fields to the Dornoch and Moray Firths. The forestry....
....bears the scars of the recent gales though there isn't as much damage as we would have expected after some fairly fierce winds. It does seem that Golspie is protected from the worst, perhaps because it nestles beneath the ben.
With the exception of the snowdrops, of which more and more are appearing, it really is a low time for wildlife. We might have hoped to see some roe deer in the forestry but only found one set of tracks in the mud along the footpaths, and the fungi confined themselves to two places, the first growing on some dead gorse branches and....
....the second in grass at the side of the track. I have no idea of what the first is but this one may be....
....the beautifully named scurfy twiglet.
The brightest greens were to be found in the mosses crowding a south-facing stone wall along the Golspie Tower road, growing next to the only other flowers that are out, those of some of the gorse bushes.
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