Summer has arrived on the northeast coast of Scotland, with temperatures soaring to 25C, light easterly breezes, and only a little high cloud to mar the sunshine, weather which many up this way consider indecently hot.
We took the opportunity to drive a few miles inland from Golspie to the crofting township of Farlary, where we spent a happy couple of hours wandering the trails the crofter on Croft 43 has opened to the public, seeing not another soul in that time. However, the wildlife obliged with....
....plenty of large red damselflies on the wing, many very difficult to spot as they tended to rest on sprigs of heather, and....
....the first, very smart, male common blues, some of them having already found....
....the love interest of the moment.
We sat beside one of the little ponds the crofter has dug, on a picnic table he's provided, and watched half-a-dozen four-spotted chasers pursing each other along the water margins, with occasional stops to rest.
It was a wonderfully peaceful morning crowned by....
....an encounter on the way home, on the road entering Backies township, with a red deer stag in velvet which ran in front of us for a couple of hundred metres before leaping into the woodland to the left.
Summer has arrived on the northeast coast of Scotland, with temperatures soaring to 25C, light easterly breezes, and only a little high cloud to mar the sunshine, weather which many up this way consider indecently hot.
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