Wednesday 14 July 2010

First Summer Holiday Hillwalk

Mount Keen Hillwalk.
We started at the car park at Invermark at the top of Glenesk and followed the well marked and easy to navigate path to the summit of Mount Keen which is the easternmost Scottish Munro at 939 metres. The walk takes an hour to the start of the climb, two hours to the summit, around an hour back down again and a further hour back to the car.
As well as the wildlife shown here below, we also saw for the first time in a long while a female Adder which slinked into the heather from the track close to the Queens Well. Also Meadow or Rock Pipits, Lapwing, Rabbits, and even a one pound brown trout in the river at the measuring station at Invermark.

Juvenile Mistle Thrush near the Queens Well

Wheatear feeding on the road kill near the Queens Well

Fox Moth Caterpillar, especially for Fin

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