We spent much of this morning following one of the estate tracks up into the forestry on the lower slopes of Bheinn Bhraggie, returning along the winding mountain bike paths with their....
....views across the Dornoch Firth. It was good to encounter....
....old friends like the pink devil's-bit scabious, some of the flowers so pale they were almost white, and....
....noticing how all the signs of an imminent autumn are on show, with the rowans heavy with berries which was taken in the past as being a sign of a cold winter.
We had to contend with frequent showers but when the sun was allowed to show his face it was gloriously warm, and brought out two butterflies, red admirals and speckled woods, both preferring the sunnier woodland clearings.
As we'd noticed before, the relatively dry spell in the first part of August has been unkind to the fungi but there were a few to be found, including this flower-like gill (perhaps the rufous milkcap) and....
....a single pore, perhaps slippery Jack, with its wet-looking cap.
We spent much of this morning following one of the estate tracks up into the forestry on the lower slopes of Bheinn Bhraggie, returning along the winding mountain bike paths with their....
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