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Highland Glens & Bogs

(Click on image to see bigger picture) Echoes of waterfalls and huge buttresses are the first impressions as you encounter Glencoe. A gentle walk explores woodlands along the local trails in Glencoe, before we visit the Interpretation at the new National Trust for Scotland visitor centre. The battle of Glencoe and The Clans are interpreted in the centre, before a small walk around the birch woodlands and meadows in the glens.

We explore red deer ecology and golden eagle country, exploring the high corries and mountain tops where we may also see some rare willows and herbs growing in the rock crevices, on the mountain paths. The west coast of Scotland favours broadleaved woodland species and rich moss covered trees are frequent in Glencoe. These woodlands are encouraged by management practices that prevent overgrazing and browsing on the NTS estates.

The wild stretches of Rannoch moor are inaccessible except by foot. A series of bogs, marshy swamps and lochans stretch from Kings House near Glencoe to Perthshire in the east. Bog mosses make up a large part of this extensive wild land, with all shades of sphagnum mosses. Bog bean does well in shallow open water and there are many species of bladderwort, carnivorous plants that supplement their food with insects. Rannoch rush is found in central and northern Europe, but is only found at Rannoch moor in Britain where it survives in wet hollows with sphagnum moss.

There are also many birds breeding here including curlew, red grouse and the beautiful red-breasted merganser on the lochs.
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Glencoe - Jul/Aug/Sept 2008

These packages will be available during July, August, September 2008 - dates to be confirmed
(Date of Event: 01 Jul 2008)
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