The ‘B’ road across the moors between Braco and Comrie follows the contours for good reason —
The grassy sward between the camera and the road may look benign but there is a deep and wide drainage channel over there with it’s dark and turgid waters difficult to gauge. Elsewhere it’s easy with the waters laying on top in places —
But cut through the surface vegetation as some poor sod did with his quad bike —
At 30054 ft in height – Ben Chonzie- which lies about four miles as the crow flies north of our house just makes it into the Munro territory reserved for mountains in Scotland over 3000ft.
I have never climbed it and now with my right knee joint worn to ‘bone-on-bone’ and the big 80 years on this planet just round the corner – I very much doubt I ever will —
No worries — I climbed my own ‘Munro’ yesterday —
And the views down to that River were so much better than I had expected 😃
I walked all the way over the moors earlier today and can’t remember spotting a bird. I understand there was shooting elsewhere on the estate in the morning so perhaps they were just laying low —
Question is —
What kind of bird left these colourful droppings behind?
Far from home – is a well kept memorial for two young men who lost their lives when their Tornado jet fighter plane clipped the hillside and went down – Sept 1994 —
The walking stick is mine – it was slippery underfoot up there today —