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in Scotland.
4° and partly cloudy at Arbroath Cliffs just now.
Things to do in Scotland
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True or false17 hours ago
True or false: puffins stay at Scotland's seabird cliffs all year round.
Did you know16 hours ago
The John Muir Way crosses Scotland coast to coast for 215km, from Helensburgh to Dunbar, the town where John Muir was born in 1838.
The route is named after Muir, the conservationist remembered as the founder of America's national parks, and the house he was born in is now a museum. The whole way takes nine to eleven days, and towards the end it follows the coast of East Lothian. Trains from Glasgow Queen Street reach Helensburgh, and trains from Edinburgh Waverley reach Dunbar. Cyclists need a sturdy mountain or hybrid bike, ideally with puncture-proof tyres.
Quiz15 hours ago
Round Loch Katrine, the Great Trossachs Forest National Nature Reserve is planting back its native woodland. How long is the project meant to last?
The rut is on.Wild salmon leap the Falls of Rogie, in Ross and Cromarty, every autumn.Muck is only 1,500 acres, and more than 140 kinds of bird have been recorded on it.Spey Bay, where the River Spey meets the Moray Firth near Elgin, has the longest shingle beach in Scotland.Book something for the weekend.Which headland is the most westerly point of mainland Great Britain?Far Out, Yet Still So CloseThe red squirrels at Cluny House Gardens, near Aberfeldy, come down to the paths for most of the day.The little pink house on the shore of Loch Glass, under Ben Wyvis in Easter Ross, looks like a lodge from a picture book, but it is an unfinished, empty shell.Some good places to go, newly added to the site.In the old stories of Orkney and Shetland, a selkie is a seal that can slip off its skin and come ashore as a person.True or false: the shaggy Highland cow is a kind of yak.What Tobermory distillery looks like in autumn.Laurie Goodlad and her family walked the Birks of Aberfeldy, a woodland trail past the Falls of Moness in Perthshire, in just over an hour.Things to do in the Isle of Skye.The photographer Virginie Chabrol found her picture on the frozen summit of Goatfell, on the Isle of Arran, only when her partner walked out of the fog.True or false: John o' Groats is the most northerly point of mainland Britain.Three sea eagles live round the end of the road at Geary on Skye.Inside the walled garden at Kailzie, near Peebles, stands one of the first glasshouses Mackenzie and Moncur built.Stories from outside: walks, wildlife and things to do.Stories from outside: walks, wildlife and things to do.Stories from outside: walks, wildlife and things to do.Stories from outside: walks, wildlife and things to do.A red-necked phalarope tagged on Fetlar, in Shetland, in 2012 turned out to spend the winter in the Pacific Ocean off Peru, a round trip of 16,000 miles.On the path to Eas Mor, on Arran, a hut in the trees is papered with notes left by walkers, and a pen is waiting for yours.At South Clunes Farm, in the hills north of Loch Ness, beavers have built ten 'leaky dams' that stop the land downstream from flooding.Which of these means a striped cat in the Scottish Highlands is not a true wildcat?More than 3,000 seals have been counted on the sands at the mouth of the Ythan, north of Aberdeen.The Cuillin on Skye are the inside of a volcano ten kilometres wide, 60 million years old.The Unmissable Castles of ArgyllThe Isle of Arran is split by the Highland Boundary Fault, so it has both Highland and Lowland scenery in just 55 miles of coastline.