Holiday Scotland

I have been hoping to see one of these very elusive animals now for many years, but never seem to be in the correct place at the right time, in fact I am sure I have missed glimpses of them and been very close at times, but to this day they have been hiding from [...]

  The mountains of the Highlands may still be snow-covered, and it doesn’t entirely feel that spring has sprung; but with lambs in the fields and leaves returning to the trees, the colours of Scotland are changing again as the seasonal clogs turn once more through their eternal motion. Through the winter the only green [...]

  The Abernethy Forest is situated within the Cairngorm national park between the Boat of Garten and the Village of Nethy Bridge, The forest is remnant of the magnificent Caledonian forest and is a RSPB reserve. The Caledonian Forest is a type of woodland that covered many parts of Scotland in years gone by, now [...]

Camouflaged within the Highland forests and moors roams a predator, a lonely predator seeking shelter and food amidst thousands of years of persecution, a Scottish icon with a fierce reputation surviving through the most harsh conditions, a mysterious animal known as the Scottish Wildcat. It is said today that there are only 400 pure Scottish [...]

  Pine Martens In Scotland are a very elusive animal and one of Scotland’s best loved creatures, so what do we know about them? The Pine Marten are about the size of a domestic cat and belongs to the weasel family, with long bodies and a dark brown fur blending into a cream coloured throat, [...]

Set in the middle of the Abernethy Forest close to Loch Garten in Scotland sits probably one of the nicest located visitor attractions in the Cairngorms Nation Park. The Loch Garten Osprey centre is between the villages of Boat of Garten and Nethybridge along the forest road that links both villages, run by the RSPB [...]

Through the extinction of the White Tailed Eagle in Britain in 1918, this majestic bird wasnt seen soaring over our land for over half a Century. A change of law in the 1950s helped to pave the way for 2 early attempts at bringing the Sea Eagle back to Scotland. In 1975, 82 young birds [...]