Day 3 for Bridget & Sue on their Cairngorms Walking Holiday with me. Today we had a hillwalking/wildlife tour up in the hills. A bright and breezy start to the morning but cloud soon coming over the mountains and a bit gloomy. Not ideal wildlife photography conditions. Of course our beautiful wildlife live up in the mountains and are used to all kinds of weather, unlike us humans.
We headed up onto the plateau and found shelter from the strong Southerly winds. Despite the relatively warm wind directions it was still cold. Plenty of layers and thick gloves whilst we found our main objective. The wonderful Ptarmigan.
There is an area that I've seen more Ptarmigan than usual since the Summer months. Any regular readers of my post may know, the Ptarmigan in the last couple of years have been low in number. My usual 'guaranteed ' locations to see them have yielded fruitless on many occasions. This latest area is my first port of call at the moment. We weren't disappointed. We counted a wonderful flock of 10 ptarmigan amongst 2 Mountain Hare. Brilliant.
To warm up again after an hour of photography in cold conditions we headed to Cairn Gorm. Another Munro for Sue and Bridget. The weather started to brighten up a bit so we headed to the Loch A'an basin for some nice views. Unfortunately the cloud came down. We were treated to some more wonderful Ptarmigan on our return. A pair of very photogenic birds. Posing nicely in a stylish spell. A great end to the day.
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