CHRISTMAS EVE

4.30pm, Christmas Eve, the sun just setting, and Jupiter rising. A beautiful evening.

Happy Christmas.

WINTER ARRIVES

Today, snow is falling.
Work today means helping visitors stay safe: hillwalkers looking for route and weather info(http://www.mwis.org.uk/forecast.php?area=3), others needing the shelter of the Visitor Centre at Braeloine.
http://www.glentanar.co.uk/estate_activities.html
Tonight, we will check the car park, and the post box for route cards.

winter harbinger

The end of a beautiful day.

Traces of snow on the hill under a sickle moon.

AUTUMN COLOURS

Copper beech, maple, and silver birches,

turn in the autumn sunshine outside West Millfield. http://http://www.glentanar.co.uk/holiday_cottages.html

AUTUMN IN GLEN TANAR

October is a great month here: stags roaring, leaves turning, stars bright.

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SACselection/sac.asp?EUCode=UK0030134

FUNGAL FORAY

On Saturday 4th, we welcomed the Scottish Wildlife Trust, led by Liz Holden, to look at the fungi in our oakwoods.

We will shortly publish a list of what we found.

CARRIAGE DRIVING EVENT

This Sunday, 14th September, Glen Tanar will host a major carriage driving event.
Over a prepared route, horses and carriages will drive through the Pine Forest and along the Water of Tanar.
Visitors are welcome to view the spectacle, and of course to enjoy Glen Tanar.

DESIGN AWARD FOR GLEN TANAR

http://www.glentanar.co.uk/walking_cycling.html

The footbridge over the Tanar, at the foot of Mount Keen, has won a design award.

Working with Upper Deeside Access Trust, Glen Tanar Estate undertook the public consultation, and paid particular attention to environmental impacts.

The upper reaches of the Tanar form important salmon spawning grounds, so water quality is of the utmost importance.

The bridge provides a safe crossing point for Munroists, and walkers and mountain bikers traversing the Mounth.

ICELANDIC VISITORS

We recently hosted a group of land managers from Iceland. They came to study woodland, and were particularly interested in native woodland management, so Glen Tanar pinewood was ideal study site. As they have only recently established their woodland, the issue of forest fire had not occurred to them: they were therefore intrigued by the work done in Glen Tanar on wildfire management.

eagle tracking

last year -2007- we fixed a radio tag onto an eagle chick to look at the range.
photo shows extent of this over a few days.

RECENT EVENTS

A couple of interesting 'visits': young Bahraini business people came to see how we are adapting to climate change. Group were managed bt Simon'three hands', an daccompanied by Fiona Chalmers from Cairngorms National Park Authority, and Bill Slee from Macaulay Institute. See pix.
Beginning of August we had Europarc Junior Ranger Camp: young folk from Europe's protected areas, spending a week enjoying/exploring/conserving here on Royal Deeside. See vids.

FIRST POST

This blog will give news on Glen Tanar from the Ranger Service perspective. We will post what we think is interesting: let us know if you find it of interest.
EGB, HEAD RANGER