A Tour of Scotland!

A trip to Glasgow on Thursday night to see Ryan Adams for the 12th or 13th time gives us an opportunity to do some exploring in different areas for a change.(Thanks to HarryB for suggestions...)

Mercifully once we leave Grampian the weather becomes so much better and we set off early(ish) on Friday 27th towards Aberfoyle and the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. We are nearly there then discover access closed so a bit of a detour although we manage to inadvertently find:
Flanders Moss - Wonderful place, nobody there, nice viewing tower and a well set out pathway around part of the moss.
The trees around the car park hold singing willow warbler and at least two great spotted woodpecker. Some common gull on the pond and meadow pipit about.

The highlights though are the numerous peacock butterfly (most of them a bit tatty) that are emerging as a response to the sun that is currently out and these are later joined by at least 4 tortoiseshell, numerous honey and bumble bee varieties.

Peacock

Brown Hare

On the track back out, Diane spotted a hare which was pretty well camouflaged and a quick record shot taken before it scarpered
This was a great spot which will be revisited some time!