Tracks

The Estate has been cutting down trees in areas of woodland near Dunrobin Castle and someone has been good enough to put up some warning notices, particularly useful as these tracks are often used by casual visitors to the castle to stretch their and their dog's legs. This was a timely warning as we, dressed in our full walking gear, found....

....parts of the track difficult to negotiate.

At first sight the forestry in places like this looks a bit of a mess but the removal of some trees does open the place up to the light, and all the noisy machinery certainly didn't chase the birds away, as they were in full song.

There's a small area of grass between this area of forestry and the shore and one of the people we meet on our walks advised us to look for this - a narrow track made by the frequent passage of an animal. She suggested to us that it was made by an otter which has, perhaps, a holt in the dense shrubbery seen in the background, and uses this. track to get to the sea.