Thursday 2 November 2017

The Red Squirrels of Eskrigg

John was delighted that this village was named after him. This weeks Wednesday walk took us to Lockerbie as I had to drop Gaye off at Lockerbie Station for a trip to Glasgow to see The Streamie. She was in this play at Langholm Music & Arts Festival in 1998 and she loved every minute of it during that summer of rehearsals. It was such a success they went to Annan for a performance as well in front of 400 people. We all met up at Lockerbie Station for a 6 mile circular walk that took in Eskrigg Nature Reserve.  
When we arrived at Eskrigg we had hardly time to sit down in  the Hide before the Red Squirrels arrived and in no time at all we were watching 6 of them.
This one had a very black bushy tail 
Just as I started to take photographs my camera battery packed in so these are all from my I Phone which has not got as good a zoom as the camera.  
They moved so fast it was difficult to get a clear photo. 
Great entertainment for 20 minutes and then we moved on. 
The route back to Lockerbie was extremely muddy. We ended our walk with Lunch in the Kings Arms Hotel.

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