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| Looking fine in the sun |
I was out photographing my local Monadhliath Mountain Hares this morning. Some beautiful early morning light. For a change I was out walking by 8am. There was some lovely moments when the cloud burned off the high Cairngorms. I had the hillside to myself. Early mornings are always good for that.
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| Cloud breaking over the Cairngorms |
The heather is now looking quite wonderful in the lower reaches of the hills and in the Strath. Another week and it will be at its most colourful I think.
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| Ling and Scots Pines |
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| Cloud burning off |
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| Nice contrasting colours |
There were still one or two Wheatear about. It won't be long before they'll be on their way back home to Northern Africa. Delightful birds.
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| Wheatear are still about |
Numbers of mountain hare in my local area have been very low since the Spring/early Summer heatwave. I've not seen any leverets this year either. Very disappointing and worrying. Have they suffered in the drought like conditions? So today I was happier as I spotted at least 6 hares, all looking fine in the beautiful light.
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| Two is nice |
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| There were actually 3 together |
My first sightings of a couple of hares were lower down the hill. They were a bit twitchy. Higher up I spotted 3 close to each other. Always nice. It wasn't until.I crawled a little closer that I saw a third hare tucked into his form and just his eyes and ears poking up. Wonderful.
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| More heather |
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| Subtle changes in leaf |
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| Green hills on the change |
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