Richard Webb photos from 01 March 2006 to 01 April 2006

Bogs, Glen Aray Bogs at the head of Glen Aray. The forest that encroaches into the square is being felled. Beyond, cloud covered Ben Cruachan.

Burn on the upper slopes of Beinn Ghlas. One of the many watercourses draining the hill running through steep heathery slopes.

Glacial deposits Cone shaped hills show where streams beneath or upon glaciers formed waterfalls depositing gravels. In folklore they are the homes of fairies. Rather tussocky bog.

Glen Aray Much of the square has been planted with commercial forestry. The northern part is still moorland with the, usual for this hill, Southwest-northeast grain of rocky ridges. View down into upp…

Logpile. Many of the trees around Acurrach are being felled. Here they await the lorries.

Moorland, west of Beinn Ghlas. Tussocky grass gives way to heather on the better drained slopes.

Southwest to Northeast, Beinn Ghlas. Rocky ridge, one of many on the western slopes of Beinn Ghlas. This hill would make a very fine orienteering venue. Gentle slopes but complex contours.

Loch Shira Wooded shoreline of Loch Shira, a bay off Loch Fyne.

Roadside quarry Yet another parking place taken out. Seems a popular occupation. Digging a ditch is one way , usually they dump boulders. Still possible to stop for the woodland quarry beside Loch Fyn…

Beinn Ghlas, trigpoint Probably not the summit, but nearby. View of the Shirra Dam.

Northern slopes, Beinn Ghlas View across the rough northern slopes of Beinn Ghlas. The Shirra dam in the distance.

Taynafead Ruin beside the A819.

Lochan on Beinn Ghlas Water trapped amongst the rocky ridges on Beinn Ghlas.

River Aray Upper reaches of the river at the head of Glen Aray.

Tom an Aighe A small area of fertility amongst the tussocks on Beinn Ghlas.

Below Tom an Aighe Tussocky ground beneath Beinn Ghlas, a big view across the square and towards Loch Awe.

Tree harvesting, Acurrach Newly felled area of forest.

Acurrach Cattle above the access road to Acurrach.

Maol Accurrach Small hill above a lot of tussocks.

Beinn Ghlas. The summit.

Dry ground, Beinn Ghlas. View south down Glen Aray with a dryer better drained area of moorland.

Druim Dubh. Moorland above Glen Shira.

Rock ridges, Beinn Ghlas. Ridges of rock near the summit of Beinn Ghlas. As usual on this hill the ridges run SW -> NE

Acurrach Amazingly a farm in an area which is either spruce or tussocky bog. They raise sheep and cattle on the surrounding moors.

Woods, Danskine. View south downhill over woods north of Danskine Loch.

Across the Donolly Burn. Arable land in two states either side of the glen carrying the Donolly Burn and its reservoir. Lammermuir scarp in the distance.

Beech Hill. A few days after 136106 but a different season.

Hedgerow, Gamuerlston Bridge. Old machinery, hay turner?

Round bales near Stoneypath. One of the great geograph cliches.. round bales. View SE towards the Lammermuir Hills.

Lambing pens. Sheltered areas for safe lambings. The threat of snow is always present in springtime, especially 200m up in the Lammermuir Hills.

Park Strip. The woods protect the fields of this square from cold and snow bearing winds off the Lammermuir Hills. View southeastward.

Stubble, Danskine. View eastwards over Hillfoot arable land towards sheep pasture.

Winter crops, Danskine. Winter sown crops. Woodland beyond dropping to the Danskine Loch

The Chesters. Site of a fort, now a leaf choked wet woodland. Near Eaglescairnie Mains.

Whittinghame Water. Below Papple. Looking downstream.

Woods,Quarryford. South along the edge of some woodland.

Pond, Castle Mains. Farm pond with a pair of tufted ducks. (Aythya fuligula)

Donolly Burn. Looking up the glen of the Donolly Burn.

Ploughed field, Newlands. Newly ploughed land below the Lammermuir Hills.

Lambs, Carfrae. Turnips out to help the ewes until the grass gets going. View west.

Through a shelterbelt. Horse grazing beyond a stripwood at Parks.

Colstoun Wood. Looking out of the wood into a mix of fields and woods on the Coulston Estate.

Dumbadam Burn. Farmland around Dumbadam Burn

Twin Law summit. Trig dwarfed by the cairns, rebuilt after being run over by tanks training during the 1939-45 war.

Wedder Lairs. Eastern side of Wedder Lairs.

Blackface, Blackhill. The iconic Scottish sheep. Blackhill Wood, Lammermuir Hills.

Blythe Edge. View SE along Blythe Edge. The occasional passage of tyres and feet along side the fence, almost certainly an estate boundary as well as parish march, means easy going amongst the bogs, d…

Asbestos hut, Dye Water. Decaying farm building beside the Dye Water. Looking west upstream with Little Law beyond.

Bogs on Wedder Lairs. Wetland on the eastern slopes of Wedder Lairs. Looking south. The ground may be wet, but the Lammermuir Hills have a dry climate. It was a dry day, but most of the country had ra…

A819 A fast stretch beneath the Munro monument.