Fairy Glen and a bench

I’m back at RSPB Abernethy.  I’m excited.  This place is fantastic.  14000 hectares of which one third is already wooded, one third is regenerating and one third is montane habitat.  Not only that, they also have capercaillie, pine martens, crested tit, red squirrel and the occasional golden eagle.  I’m going to be here for six months as the long term residential volunteer.  If it’s going to snow this winter there won’t be more snow anywhere in the UK than here.  Probably.

For my first day’s work myself and the two current short term volunteers went along with Alice and Ian to join Kate at the Fairy Glen to clear some fallen trees from over the burn/stream (please ignore as appropriate for your country of origin).  Today, my second day, we helped install a rather nice bench up near the Osprey Centre, and I received an ‘induction’.