Thursday 25 August 2011

From Scotland #5: Double figures reached for castles

Another two castles under our belt yesterday - Drum and Crathes. Both National Trust of Scotland properties and both still lived in until comparatively recently. Carthes Castle has a large estate associated with it and we had a very pleasant 4 mile work in the woodlands there. At Drum, we followed a 1 mile trail. In neither case did we see any red squirrels. Neither did we see Colonel Gadaffy.
Whilst I remember, I did see a Golden Eagle yesterday whilst we were driving along on a fairly secluded piece of road. Definately not a buzzard (nicknamed the 'tourist eagle') and there's no other bird of prey that big around these parts.

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