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- Karen Dykes
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- Pheasants [underlined]. Dumfrieshire run as high as 500 birds
shot on 1000 acres. This in the open
oak woods. Here the pheasants are birds
of scrub + open deciduous woods only
feeding into the meadows + fields + seldom
nesting there. Significantly I have seen
no clover hay grown. All hay is grass +
it will not tempt pheasant nesting. The
other crops are potatos [potatoes], turnips + grain
none of them predsposing [predisposing] the birds to
mowing loss.
Red grouse [underlined] Red grouse reach 200 brace on
600 acres harvested during the best years
Aug [August] 16 Tynron. Left at 10 this morning with [Arthur] Duncan
+ on the way picked up Donald Watson the
bird artist + his brother Eric Watson, a
lecturer in Botany at Reading University.
We proceeded to the end of the road south
of Merrick + spent a grand day climbing
it + Bengellary. Our route lay first
up Bengellary by way of the Fell of
Eschonachan [Eschoncan] to the summit at 2360 where
we stopped for lunch, then on to Merrick
at 2764. From there we went down
Gloon Burn + Buchan Burn over the Rig of Enoch
+ to the shores of Loch Enoch which I photographed.
Further on we passed murder Hale on Loch
Neldricken + so down Gairland Burn to
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