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@christownsend.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:41 PM

Four recent camps with Tony Hobbs in Glen Feshie, Glen Geldie, Glen Dee, and Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorms. Mostly wet and windy weather - sometimes very windy! #Cairngorms #wildcamping

Two green backpacking tents in a forest.

View from a tent with sunlight on brown slopes and a scattering of camp cooking gear in front of the tent.

Two green backpacking tents on moorland with hills in the distance under a grey sky. One man emerging from one of the tents.

View out of a tent to another tent and woodland. Bare feet visible in the tent.

@listermj.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:28 AM

#TerrierTuesday #SpookySeason
Have Hattie & Alfie spotted Seath Mòr's Ghost in the haunted Rothiemurchus Forest?
Fleeing from his spectral challenge leads to doom, but stand your ground and he will vanish in peace
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#btposse #borderterrier #cairngorms #scotland #photography #eastcoastkin

Two Border Terriers surrounded by purple heather bushes in an ancient Caledonian pine forest. They are standing with alert expressions, looking into the distance with their heads turned to the left of the picture.
Taken on an August day at Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
Behind them on the right is the bottom of a Scots Pine tree.
The background is blurred with purple heather bushes, trees and green vegetation.
The haunted Forest of Rothiemurchus in the Scottish Highlands shelters the cursed grave of 14th-century Clan Shaw chief Seath Mòr Sgòrfhiaclach and the ruins of Loch an Eilein Castle.
Seath Mòr's Ghost is a tall, fearsome chieftain and is said to haunt the deep pinewoods, appearing to wanderers who stray too far off the path. Folklore warns that fleeing from his spectral challenge leads to doom, while standing your ground and accepting causes him to vanish in peace.
Seath Mòr’s resting place in the old kirkyard of St Tuchaldus features five cylindrical "homing stones" on top of the tomb. Legend says they are guarded by Bodach an Duin (the Goblin of the Doune), a spirit that punishes anyone who touches or steals the stones with sudden death or severe misfortune.
A heavy wrought-iron cage was placed over the grave in the 1980s to stop visitors from tampering with the stones after centuries of local eerie occurrences and ghostly sightings in the surrounding pinewoods.

@christownsend.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:22 PM

October 2, Glen Feshie. The autumn colours begin. #Cairngorms #autumn

A river running through woods with craggy hills rising above it.

A river running through woods and steep slopes.

Wooded hillside with a few autumn yellow trees amongst the green.

A hillside with brown grass and heather, a big pine tree, and three smaller trees turning yellow.

@ursus-spelaeus.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:17 PM

The Scottish Highlands #scotland #aviemore #cairngorms #unitedkingdom #wildlife

@northernhills.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:54 AM

Here are some #lichen beauties in montane wind-clipped heath in the #Cairngorms from a visit a month ago.
#lichengbi

Swards of Flavocetraria nivalis low to the ground amongst heather, bilberry, crowberry and cowberry.

Alectoria sarmentosa ssp vexillifera with flattened stems

Pseudephebe minusculum on a rock - tiny with a dendritic branching pattern

Lepra dactilina with chunky white isidia

@bscgscotland.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 9:31 AM

Certainly.

(Inappropriate recourse to tree planting over supporting natural regeneration is a problem often apparent in #Scotland, even in the #Cairngorms.

A recent sad case was noted in the newsletter of the Cairngorms Campaign) @rspbscotland.bsky.social @severincarrell.bsky.social

@camplantsci.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 3:07 PM

This breakthrough method replaces hundreds of hours of physical ground surveys to transform how nature restoration is tracked at scale.

📖 Read the full paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#PlantScience #ForestRestoration #LiDAR #Cairngorms #Ecology #CambridgeResearch

@dantesinferno2025.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 10:15 PM

#GoodNews 🌱

🟢 #Schottland – #Wildkatzen vermehren sich wieder in freier Wildbahn. #EuropeanWildcat Das Wiederansiedlungsprogramm in den #Cairngorms hat inzwischen 50 Wildkatzen ausgewildert. Wichtiger als diese Zahl: Bei den freigelassenen Tieren wurden nun in drei aufeinanderfolgenden

@gaspurves.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 10:28 AM

The Abernethy/Glenmore wildfire and shortcomings in National Park governance | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland:

#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #Wildfires🔥 #Cairngorms ⛰️ #NationalParks

parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/09/25/t...

@petecrane.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 5:16 PM

Said to be one of our most loved animals .... rolled past this #RedSquirrel on my bike ride in the #Cairngorms today.

@holidayhighlands.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 7:30 PM

💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Victorian villa sleeping 10 in the #Cairngorms National Park

The perfect cosy Highland escape with a a woodburning stove in the sitting room , and conservatory with double-sided woodburning stove.
See:
www.holidayscottishhighlands.co.uk/listings/the...
#HighlandsIslands #Scotland

@kensbookinfo.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 7:58 PM

Help Scout Blog: Reducing and Handling Ecommerce #Shipping Cost Complaints - https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/end-of-line.html#HelpScoutBlog BBC: What is a #Scottish wildcat? #Wildcats #Cairngorms #Conservation #Scotland #BBCNews - https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/youtube.html#54

@petecrane.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:59 PM

Great views from high up in the #Cairngorms today

@hdclump.com Sep 20, 2026, 5:01 PM

A wildfire burned underground in Scotland for over a month. Crews pumped 6,000 litres of water a minute along a three-kilometre pipe to reach active areas. Thermal drones hunted hot spots invisible from the ground.

hdclump.com/landward-epi...

#Wildfire #Cairngorms #Scotland

@msteinwandter.eurosky.social Sep 20, 2026, 10:12 AM

Autumn vibes at the #alpine plateau of the Ben Avon, #Cairngorms, Scotland. 🍂

For my project #BEN-EAF, we took new soil samples to do more soil parameter analyses. 🌱

And of course, we read out also our #TOMST soil temperature loggers so that the data can be added to the @mebnetwork.bsky.social . 🌡️

Autumn vibes and colours at the alpine Ben Avon plateau in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

Soil samples being taken at the alpine Ben Avon plateau in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

Soil temperature loggers (TOMST) being read out at the alpine Ben Avon plateau in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

@4linblue.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 8:44 PM

Zwischen den ersten beiden Fotos liegen 5 min. Jetzt nach zwei eher grottigen Hotels in UK a la Barnaby gelandet. #Cairngorms 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Caledonian Canal kurz vor Mündung in den Loch Ness

@tourscotland.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 11:41 AM

Tour #Scotland travel photography Blog of Stacan Dubha Beinn Mheadhoin mountain on #ancestry, #history visit and trip to the inner part of the #Cairngorms #Highlands. The Cairngorms were formed 40 million years before the last ice age tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2016/09/tour...

@tourscotland.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

Tour #Scotland travel photography Blog of Càrn a' Mhàim mountain on #ancestry, #history visit and trip to the inner part of the #Cairngorms which helped to create the remote character of the #Highlands that persists today tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2016/09/tour...

@rickybirdman.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 6:50 AM

@robcrank68.bsky.social said Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae
When you go to the #Cairngorms a key target is the crested tit. You can find them high up in the Scots pines or visiting bird feeders. They are very vocal so learning their call helps!
#highlands #birds #Scotland #wildlife #eck

@speleoseb.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:49 AM

Yesterday @olakwiecien3.bsky.social and #geodog Pebble helped hunting #mushrooms in the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Cairngorms. And what a hunt it was! 😎 the most beautiful &plentyful I found in >20 yrs!
🥰🤩
@speleojacek.bsky.social @geohenning.bsky.social @pucicu.de @mariabox.bsky.social