Tuesday, September 08, 2020
The water level at Loch Glascarnoch is very low, and I walked along the old road to the first bridge on fairly dry ground. (We'd reached this point once before, but only by plodding through some thick mud.)
I came to where the road ran into the water, and although on the far side of the small bay it reappeared and I could have made my way round the edge of the bay, I decided to turn. There were a few spots of rain and I'd seen no birds at all - I mean, not one single bird! And then on the way back some movement out on the loch caught my eye, and a merganser saved the day.
On the outbound drive, the big car park at Braemore Junction had been full of cars and camper-vans; I guessed that the car park for the Corrieshalloch Gorge, a little way along the other road, was full. By the time I drove back, most of them had gone. The car park for the Beinn Dearg hills was also full, but there evidently hadn't been many takers for the eastern approach to the Fannichs.
// posted by Christine @ 3:11 PM 
