This winter there has been frost and snow but little rain, so the burns are running low. This one tumbles down through birch and hazel woodland where the shadowed, damp conditions favour the growth of moss, lichen and fern.
The burn rises on the south flank of the ridge called
Druim na Gearr Leachan, dropping over 200m in less than a kilometre, more gently across the limestone outcrops and steeply down the scarps formed of hard dolerite sill.
The course of the burn is cluttered with boulders left by the glaciers that once covered the land. Some have been lifted and carried many miles before being dumped. Between the rocks the silent, peat-stained water swirls in slow eddies.
This winter there has been frost and snow but little rain, so the burns are running low. This one tumbles down through birch and hazel woodland where the shadowed, damp conditions favour the growth of moss, lichen and fern.
The burn rises on the south flank of the ridge called Druim na Gearr Leachan, dropping over 200m in less than a kilometre, more gently across the limestone outcrops and steeply down the scarps formed of hard dolerite sill.
The course of the burn is cluttered with boulders left by the glaciers that once covered the land. Some have been lifted and carried many miles before being dumped. Between the rocks the silent, peat-stained water swirls in slow eddies.
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