Wildlife on Knoydart

Our walks were full of surprises, coming up Gleann na Guiserein we saw a Sea Eagle resting on a large rock not far above the valley floor, he laboriously flapped off as we walked by; not long afterwards we startled a red fox standing in the middle of the track, maybe the warm sun in the late afternoon had made them less wary.

A couple of days later I nearly trod on this young deer calf “hidden” in a peat hag. Sensing us and the dogs the rest of the herd had moved off across the hill leaving this young one behind, it stayed quite motionless as we looked at it, most strangely, although they were standing only a few feet away the dogs were completely unaware of it. Coming down from Ladhar Beinn Flick spotted this Dwarf Cornel , at approximately 2500 feet it was a little out of its normal habitat but appeared to be thriving.