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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Original PaulE" data-source="post: 3078330" data-attributes="member: 20992">Mountains and FindhornSunday September 14th  Day 2Started with 2 Roe Deer in the garden of our B&B. First birding stop The Cairngorms, however was informed by the staff that you can’t leave the building at the top of the Railway, except on the guided walk, also informed that the Ptarmigan were no longer there having moved to the plateau decided didn’t want to spend 30 odd quid to see the odd Wheatear and Snow Bunting so decided on a walk near the car park not much about Meadow pipits and Pied Wagtails but the highlight was a very posy Red Grouse, Toj enjoyed his stay in Britain’s highest car park after a quick stop at a café at Loch Morlich for an apple strudel and a coffee, but no Cresties or Red Squirrels . Next stop was the Findhorn Valley, a lovely drive down the valley in glorious sunny weather. Quite a good haul of Raptors with 4 Red Kites, Merlin,Peregrine,Sparrowhawk,3 Kestrels and 10+ Buzzards. Though the big boys remained elusive not even I could string one of the Buzzards into an Eagle. A huge herd of Red Deer on top of the mountains was impressive . Apart from that not much else Raven. flock of Linnets, several Mistle Thrush feeding in a field and a Grey wagtail on the road the best of the rest. Good fry up this morning 2Poached eggs, 2 sausage,2Bacon,mushrooms,tomatos,fried bread, and toast although in my defence did have fruit salad to start! Best Cakes Apple Strudel and Alabama Chocolate Fudge!Pics for day 2 here (few more birds in this one)<a href="https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=6356FB2BA7828F28&id=6356FB2BA7828F28%211025" target="_blank">https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=6356FB2BA7828F28&id=6356FB2BA7828F28!1025</a></blockquote>

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