Thankyou 🙂

Looked like it, I was passing loch skerrow at that point where we saw the railway platform. The brown trout was rising all night, should’ve brought a fishing rod 😅

Yes definitely do not want to be disturbing them! Thanks for the information Mike.

It really was a perfect camp spot Mike ! Rothiemurchas and the surrounding forests, there’s just something special about it. I was really hoping to see a capercaillie (I’ve never managed to see one) but there’s always next time. I do believe there’s some that live in the forests near Logie Coldstone (is that correct?) plenty of red kite as you mentioned 👍🏻 maybe that’s the next destination for a forest camp 😃

Yeah it’s a lovely little place to spend some time in nature, Callie loves it wherever we are 😅 also nice at this time of year listening to the local bitterns booming in the Reed beds although I think I’ll need to invest in some better camera gear if I want to film those 😅

I have to say I have not had the pleasure of hearing Bittern booming in my extensive travels in Cumbria and Scotland. What locations would you advise? I do recall from schoolboy summer holidays staying with 'granny' in rural southern Ireland, the penetrating evening calls of the Corncraik.!! Past history now, I expect, with the loss of the traditional hay meadows, though I believe they are still found on Skye and the Outer Hebrides.

@@mikemccormac9368 Leighton moss in north Lancashire is a good spot for bitterns, pretty much a 90% chance of seeing/hearing a bittern this time of year since they’re doing so well! Unfortunately I’ll have to be very lucky to ever hear a corncraik these days. My grandie actually found one in the street that had hit a telephone wire a couple of years back and was unaware of how scarce they had become. He gave it away to friend, the guy probably made a fortune getting it stuffed and sold on 😅

She certainly did 😃

Yeah such a beautiful part of Scotland indeed! Callie has always loved the snow😂 I was planning on getting a good meal from the pub but the chef was ill, ah well there’s always next time!

Thankyou Tony !

Thanks again Mike ! Don’t worry, Callie will be back for next video 😅

Thankyou very much debs, happy Easter!🐣

@@RiverSide200 My pleasure you have a lovely channel debs xx

Thanks again Mike, these are the hills on the a6 between Kendal and shap. Ideal really as it’s not in the heart of the lakes so you usually get the place to yourself. Did make a mess of my finger with the axe 😂 silly mistake but I didn’t let it spoil the evening👍🏻

Yep that location is correct Mike 👍🏻 didn’t really have enough to film for a full video though, and got quite wet too 😅

Cheers pal 👍🏻

Thankyou very much! She absolutely loves being out and about 😁 definitely a man’s best friend, her name is Callie.

Thankyou! Yeah I don’t know what I’d do without her 😁

Thank you very much George! Yeah its a shame much of Scotland's hillsides are so barren and always find myself sitting in these areas picturing how they should be. However there is many groups and landowners looking to make a difference to our native ecosystems, so there is hope for the future!

@@RiverSide200 yeah as a Scot , I'm a shamed , I also share your visions how stunning and "alive" the landscape would be if covered by native woodland , apposed to the famous writer that my country...is a barren , empty wet desert ! Yes I follow trees for life .UK , the affric rewilding was giving £300,000 from EU rewild. Many landowners are queuing up on side to re-establish native woodland which is good news as guess they realise the profit in it, more attractive to tourists , hunters , better quality deer / fish etc excetera . Keep the vids coming your good at it & in time you get loads subs Inc me, reason I haven't subbed , just about to launch my own outdoor channel, choose my ch name , make couple vids etc , but this might delete my comments / subscriptions ? But I will deffo subscribe once my channel is live... Atvb G