Wildlife spotting

When we booked this holiday we were expecting rain. The Lochs wouldn't be quite so full if it didn't rain a lot. We weren't expecting to see quite so much wildlife.

We've seen an unidentifiable enormous gull, red squirrels, an eagle, swallows, a yellow furry caterpillar, a chicken that crossed the road, a seal (or was it Nessie?), bats, shrews and cows sitting on the footpaths. This is quite amazing in just a couple of days.

We saw the most interesting collection of wildlife today at Glenfinnan. This is a beautiful, quite special place looked after by the National Trust of Scotland. They manage a tower monument on the edge of  Loch Sheil, where Bonnie Prince Charlie rose his flag in 1745 and tried to claim back the throne of England and Ireland before losing at the battle of Cullodan and running away to Rome. 

If you climb up the path to get a better view you can see an impressive viaduct on the other side, over which the Jacobean steam train runs twice a day at 10am and 3pm.

Just before the train arrived there was a sudden influx of rare and exotic wildlife.  They all had different calls, often brightly coloured but one sound was commonly heard. They filled edge of the cliffs, sat in trees, braved the boggy mud and called to each other with the phrase, "Harry Potter."