Christine's walking & birds blog

Loch Achilty is signposted from the A835 near Rogie Falls, and today we drove down there for our first visit. It provides a pleasant foil to the bleak moorlands of home, being surrounded by mixed woodland which includes sessile oaks. Given the still, warm day it was surprising there were very few midges. A male redstart was singing near the road.



We followed a steepish track up to a house, and then a path through grass and bracken to a smaller loch. Three newts were seen in the loch, while a speckled wood was the only butterfly we could find.