Monday 17th April saw us collected at an unearhly hour from our hotel by our guide for the day, Marcus Conway.

Our main target for the morning was Mountain Hare in the Findhorn Valley so after parking his vehicle, tag heuer replica watches Marcus led us towards a rather steep looking mountain side where several Hares were to be found. Apparently, Mountain Hares are either sitters or runners - quite self expanatory really - and the usual sitter proved to be a runner that morning after being spooked by a Brown Hare that ran straight past it.

It then became hard work with us walking around trying to get close to one - and failing miserably. On Marcus's advice, we headed back towards the vehicle, only to find one of the subject species on the way.

First shot was the banker in case it all went wrong, showing the habitat also.

just as well really as it then decided to run. www.kawatches.com

We then found another three. They all appeared to be sitters, but we approached cautiously never-the-less under Marcus's expert guidance.

and even closer

After loads of really close shots, we quietly made our exit.

With the weather looking doubtful for the rest of the week, Marcus suggested that we try for Ptarmigan at Cairn Gorm - a hell of a treck after the morning but we decided to give it a go.

The rest is history. After an hour or so's climb, we arrived to where Marcus had found the birds a couple of days earlier - nothing. We climbed for another 15 minutes or so with no sight of Ptarmigan at all - this is only the second time that Marcus has failed to find them - a real disappointment after those exertions. He said that we had covered nearly 8 miles in the day, carrying our gear - I would not have believed that I could do that at my age - I feel knackered now just thinking about it brinkleychurch.org.

At least that is one way of ensuring a good nights sleep!!!

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