After spending the night at Aviemore, a village near the nature park of the Cairngorms decided to spend the day following the species within the Scottish region. For this we turn first to the forest Abernethy, where breeding species like the capercaillie and black grouse. We did a little tour of the Caledonian pine forest but no luck with this species. It's funny Caledonian pine forest, one is accustomed to seeing the English pine reforestation and others in which there is no such advanced stages of ecological succession.
Abernethy Forest 
Abernethy Forest A pair of deer left to see the clear pads his hindquarters as he disappeared into the thicket. We were then taken to Loch Garten, one of the main points of breeding ospreys in Scotland. But we could see at a distance quite remote. A flock of Eurasian Wigeon landed in the lake before our eyes. Have enabled the observatory to watch the nest of the fishers, but it was too early and had not yet opened. Sin was pregnant at the entrance to a feeder which fed chickadees and finches. Even a red squirrel with all white tail foraged at that point.
Loch Garten 
the banks of the Caledonian Pine Garten 
Chaffinch ( Fringilia coelebs) decided to leave the region with the feeling of having visited the lands of the Scots though roosters we had not seen. We undertake
towards the area of \u200b\u200bthe resort of the Cairngorms, where we look for species such as snow bunting and ptarmigan Alpine. Before we passed near Loch Morlich and forests before starting the ascent. We reached an area of \u200b\u200bmoorland dotted with pines, it seems the typical image of a documentary where black grouse perform their courtship. We stopped to take a look to see if we are lucky and hit a male grouse up around us, an amazing creature truth. His lyre-shaped tail as it flies and blue-black tones were recorded in the retina because it was so sudden that there was no time to photograph. But after a while the female stood up and this time if he was ready to throw a photograph even if testimonial.
Female Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix ) 
Grouse Habitat on the shores of Loch Morlich continue the climb to an altitude of around 1000 meters. We see a herd of deer in the distance and hitting the road. There is a sort of monorail that rises to the top of the ski, but do not let you leave the platform, but if you walk from the base can freely distracted by the "high mountain" in Scotland. The goal here was to photograph ptarmigans (or alpine ptarmigan). We follow a path and print begin to see the first signs (droppings, feathers, etc ...) continue rising and we see a couple of snow bunting in the distance perched on the rocks of a small crag. Too far away to photograph, but that's the point. After saving a gentle slope about 300 meters came to a crag on the banks of a small glacial lake. It should be beating with a thousand eyes and the ptarmigan go completely unnoticed by remaining motionless on the rocks (and had been found in the Catalan Pyrenees last summer.) Suddenly there are, on the rocks still. 2 units of time are starting to move very smoothly between the large stones that accumulate by the erosion of time. Is a species that really catches my attention because of its great adaptation to extreme conditions and for the confidence you have in your own camouflage.
Alpine Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus millaisi ) 
Alpine Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta millaisi ) The subspecies that lives in Scotland is different from the Pyrenees. We were celebrating the sightings and pictures when derepente other 2 individuals were resting on the weathered rock. Even more confident than earlier rested quietly while a truce clouds and rays of sunlight filtered softly.
Ptarmigan 
alpine ptarmigan 
couple alpine ptarmigan in the Cairngorms NP 
Habitat Scottish alpine ptarmigan The dotterel also breeds in the area but not We were fortunate to see him as the mountain hare which had no option to watch. The love of Birdwatching in the UK is very popular and were a number of birdwatchers that we could find that day looking for Ptamirgan (name given to the alpine ptarmigan). It had been a day kicking quite so decided to take the road to Inverness. Today he had to do some miles on the car and thanked enough.
Before we turn to reach a large glacial valley in which we hope to see red grouse because of the abundance of heather and bog it presents. No luck with this species yet so we could photograph the abundant oyster beds that fed among cattle for worms. We also saw some whimbrel the area.
Eurasian Oystercatcher ( Heamatopus ostralegus) 
oystercatcher Portrait Finally we come to Inverness, led the famous city of Rio Ness, where we would spend the night. This was all for today, in the next post will visit the shores of the famous Loch Ness and cross the Lochalsh to get to the island of Skye. I hope you enjoyed and thanks for visiting the blog. For
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