Lower Hill of Edderton

Lower Hill of Edderton 96 acre broadleaf and coniferous wood near Tain with thirty veteran granny Scots pine.

Beautiful views, walks, ruined crofts, old maps, photographs, grassy tracks, pond, picnic tables, Views over Struie, Edderton, Dornoch Firth, Redburn Chambered Cairn.

Kidney vetch seeds that I was given at the Small Blue butterfly conference germinating in a bare patch on the edge of th...
15/06/2026

Kidney vetch seeds that I was given at the Small Blue butterfly conference germinating in a bare patch on the edge of the Caravan track. Small Blue butterflies are completely dependant on kidney vetch for food and for laying their eggs.

More drama in the sky tonight. Cloud sitting on top of Ben More Assynt, catching the sun and looking like snow.
15/06/2026

More drama in the sky tonight. Cloud sitting on top of Ben More Assynt, catching the sun and looking like snow.

The progression of last night's sunset over a two hour period, 8pm till 10pm. Sun moving north from Struie to Migdale Wo...
15/06/2026

The progression of last night's sunset over a two hour period, 8pm till 10pm. Sun moving north from Struie to Migdale Wood.

On the left hand side of the orange rays, the western end of Ben More Assynt and Braebeg, the ridge to the left (south w...
15/06/2026

On the left hand side of the orange rays, the western end of Ben More Assynt and Braebeg, the ridge to the left (south west) of Ben More Assynt, are orange! The hill below the rays is Migdale Wood and Struie is to the left (also south west).

Wild flower patch on bare ground on Caravan track where logs had been stacked. A £2.99 box of wild flower seed from Home...
14/06/2026

Wild flower patch on bare ground on Caravan track where logs had been stacked. A £2.99 box of wild flower seed from Home Bargains sown far too late last year has yielded this calendula, foxglove, plantain, forget me not, germander speedwell and cosmos. I sowed some more wild flower seed this afternoon.

40" 1 metre circumference at chest height, 37 year old oak on the Caravan Track. When my dad planted the Hill of Edderto...
14/06/2026

40" 1 metre circumference at chest height, 37 year old oak on the Caravan Track. When my dad planted the Hill of Edderton in 1989, his ambition was to grow the most northern, north facing oak wood in the UK. Getting there! But of course they are not all as perfect as that one! Nowhere near.

Lower Hill of Edderton from the Bogrow Road. Single line of poplar on the north boundary, block of mixed deciduous, oak,...
14/06/2026

Lower Hill of Edderton from the Bogrow Road. Single line of poplar on the north boundary, block of mixed deciduous, oak, cherry, birch and sycamore south of that, then a line of sitka (the dark line) following an old croft track (my boundary). Scots Pine and birch on the higher slopes.

Fox and pine marten at my caravan last night, hoovering up suet pellets that I put out for the birds. And then I saw a f...
14/06/2026

Fox and pine marten at my caravan last night, hoovering up suet pellets that I put out for the birds. And then I saw a female Crossbill beside my caravan and a Fritillary buuterfly, probably Pearl Bordered, yesterday afternoon on the Caravan Track. The larvae eat Dog Violet which are becoming established on the hill, especially on the track edges. What a day for wildlife!

Beautiful, very still evening last night.
14/06/2026

Beautiful, very still evening last night.

13/06/2026

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Bogrow Road, Edderton, Tain
Highland
IV191LJ

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