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Cairngorms from Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Cairngorms from Glenshee, with a large snow patch in the foreground, but much of the hill now snow free in repsonse to climate change.
03 February 2007
Red Deer herd, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) herd, Glenshee. There are so many red deer in the Highlands, perhaps as many as 400,000, that in the absence of natural predators, management (culling) is essential to prevent overgrazing and protect the deer from starvation.
03 February 2007
Red Deer herd, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) herd, Glenshee. There are so many red deer in the Highlands, perhaps as many as 400,000, that in the absence of natural predators, management (culling) is essential to prevent overgrazing and protect the deer from starvation.
03 February 2007
Mountain Hares and snow fence, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Mountain hares (Lepus timidus), their coats changing from white in winter to buff in summer, sitting beside a snow fence in the Glenshee skiing area.
03 February 2007
Mountain Hares on rocks, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Mountain Hares (Lepus timidus), their coats changing from winter white to summer buff, picking their way across a rocky patch, Glenshee. They are quite well camouflaged against their rocky habitat.
03 February 2007
Mountain Hares running across snow patch, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Mountain Hares (Lepus timidus), their coats changing from winter white to summer buff, running across a shady snow patch, Glenshee
03 February 2007
Mountain Hares running, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Mountain Hares (Lepus timidus), their coats changing from winter white to summer buff, running towards a snow patch, Glenshee
03 February 2007
Mountain Hare changing coat, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) in the process of changing from its white winter coat into its buff summer coat, Glenshee
03 February 2007
Cairngorms from Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
The Cairngorms from Glenshee, showing features of glacial erosion, such as corries, U-shaped hollows carved out thousands of years ago by small glaciers on the sides of the mountains, and where snow still lies today. On the ridge in the foreground is a layer of loose rock caused by frost-shattering, a freeze-thaw process which breaks up rocks.
03 February 2007
Muir burn, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Muir burn, seen from Glenshee. The heather is delberately set alight in winter, to create a patchwork of different ages of heather, so that Red grouse can have areas of long heather to nest in, and also areas of short heather to eat. This practice is now seen by many as doubtful, as it reduces the vegetation on the hills, which drain more quickly and flooding downstream is the result. It also dmages peat, promoting the release of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas.
