It’s been a very mixed week weather wise. Frost, sunshine, snow, wind and rain. GRAHAM has better pictures though his were taken miles away in the Atlantic. 
Molly thinks spring has arrived, she is looking for frogs. I doubt there were any but she paddles in freezing water to check. I don’t know what inspired her but maybe she saw the…….
Snowdrops. The first of the year up here.
They are much prettier the wrong way up.
Tuesday morning whilst wandering the shore of Loch Ness I noticed something in the water.
I managed to get the dogs to sit and eventually this buck Roe Deer staggered ashore. The poor thing was exhausted and could only manage a few steps before falling over. I checked to make sure it hadn’t been hit by a car and then went to fetch Ally the Gillie to put it out of it’s misery. We arrived back by this old roadman's hut and searched for a good half hour but there was no sign of it. I thought it must have gone back in the water as the dogs couldn’t find it either. It is a sad end as I found it this morning. It had back tracked and was dead in the scrubby bushes about quarter of a mile away. Deer need culling and I’m not at all squeamish, in fact I was looking forward to a bit of it for tea. I do feel responsible when I think how long it took to die. We ought to have looked harder but it was snowing hard and windy. Poor thing.
Plenty of snow on Tuesday morning but by late afternoon most of it had been washed away by the rain.
Happy again………The first rays of sunlight hitting Meall Dubh. I haven’t changed my desktop background for fifteen months but I like this and as it’s predominantly grey it shows the icons off a treat.
I have a few avian images for tomorrow and if I can persuade Donald to put the dead deer out in the fields behind the campsite then I may get and Eagle or Buzzard having a meal. He isn’t keen on the idea having being woken at four thirty last summer by a camper reporting a dead badger. He did put a note after his phone number explaining that dead rabbits, badgers or pigeons were not an emergency. His wife made him remove it.
