Harriet Plantation is one of many areas of woodland around here which is maintained by Land & Forestry Scotland and is freely accessible to the public. We visited it last weekend for a very pleasant walk which included some of my favourite features - like, there was plenty of history, including....
....the remains of an early 13th century motte and bailey castle, Proncy Castle, and....
....a typical hut circle. Both, as is so often the case with these settlement sites, have fine views, here southwards to the Dornoch Firth. However, the highlight of the walk was the discovery of....
....an osprey nest from which....
....we inadvertently disturbed three ospreys, one of them carrying something. Now that we know where the nest is, in future we'll be able to creep up on it and observe its owners in residence.
Harriet Plantation is one of many areas of woodland around here which is maintained by Land & Forestry Scotland and is freely accessible to the public. We visited it last weekend for a very pleasant walk which included some of my favourite features - like, there was plenty of history, including....
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