Friday, January 20, 2012

Knockman Wood - A Winter Wonderland 17th Dec 2011

There was no snow at all on The Rhins so we headed east hoping to see some on the hills. Once past Glenluce it started t get white but we were surprised just how much snow they had near Newton Stewart.

1-knockman-sign

The road from Minnigaff to Knockman was a bit dodgy and we had to get out of the car and lift a branch up out of the way to get the car up to the carpark, we we had to ourselves.

2-knockman

The sun came out and we entered a magical winter wonderland.

3-snowy-bush

Snowy Blackthorn

4-green-tree

Green tree against a blue sky.

5-nuthatch

Nuthatches are rare on the North Rhins

6-nuthatch

We have seen them several times here though

7-nuthatch

and this time we weren’t dissapointed

8-nuthatch

We watched this one for a while

9-galloway-hills

Snow on the Galloway hills

10-galloway-hills

 

11-frozen-loch

Cold enough to freeze the loch

12-sunrays

Back at the car pack the sun was getting low and there were sunrays through the mist.

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