November at Abernethy, in photos
I was hoping for snow and a cold and crispy winter, and this has been the warmest November in my lifetime. I can’t be disappointed though, I’m living in the middle of a wood and I get to walk some of the best landscape our country has to offer, on a daily basis.
I got lucky and picked up a digital SLR off Ebay, so have been able to start taking nature shots again (it’s been pretty hard to get anything other than landscape shots recently as the lcd is not working on my old camera – see earlier entry). Laura (who appeared on The One Show this month) came to stay and, with her bags of SLR experience, has given me some tips, so she is to blame for the quality of my photographic efforts with the SLR to date.
We also tried to walk to Loch A’an (on the 20th) while she was here, but hey, it’s a long way when the days are so short. We turned back with a couple of km to go, and still walked the last 3 or 4 km back to the lodge in the dark. So that leaves me that challenge for another day.
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- This is likely to be pine marten scat
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- This is likely to be grass (nice though, isn’t it?)
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- Keeping warm on the hill
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- Gregg, a fire and the view we have whilst working
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- There have been no trees this far up the Strath Nethy for many hundreds of years, so how old is this root system?
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- First snow on 25th November. It’s too warm to settle though
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- A crestie on the Loch Garten feeder
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- The coal tits queue up at Forest Lodge feeder
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- Hypogymnia physodes, light coloured, and possibly Bryoria fuscescens, on Scots pine bark
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- Dog lichen, so called because of the resemblance to dog’s teeth, apparently. Who’d want a dog with teeth like that?
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- Looking South at Meall a bhuachaille
Life since the office 
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