After little sleep during the night we packed up early and were walking before 7.00am.
The rough track wound its way down the pass.
After a few miles we began to pass lodges and then houses and the road got better.
I was surprised to note how few birds and animals I had seen passing through the mountains. Maybe this has something to do with it. The bird table is on one side of the track and the shooting hide is about 15 yards away on the other side.
I did see a family of dippers and several roe deer. I have heard cuckoos again several times lately, after an absence of a few weeks, and after hearing one again today I managed to spot it with my binoculars. As I watched, it flew from the top of one dead tree to another one much nearer to me.
Once we got down to Drumguish we followed green lanes and forest tracks to Insh. We then skirted the East shore of Loch Insh to Kincraig from where another forest trail took us all the way to the campsite at Dalraddy
I have just walked 44 miles over a mountain pass in two days and I am knackered. I must change the schedulefor the next two days. I can't face 38 miles in two days.
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