nature walks

We went on a trip to Aberfeldy
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And on our trip to Aberfeldy we saw...
(And sometimes even identified with our handy Trees of Europe and Wildflowers of Europe books)

12 flat rabbits with white bellies
4 flat frogs
robins
sparrows
some funny birds that fly like jumping frogs
1 hawk
1 leech (just a little delicate European variety)
Some wee fishes that swam and swam all over the dam (and nibbled our feet)
Hemlock (possibly)
Lupins (probably)
Cows-parsely (part of the carrot family)
Birches
1 barking doberman
Beeches
Oaks
Hazel (mpst likely)
1 handful of raspberries
2 still-round hedgehogs (almost alive, practically)
1 rotund and happy tourist info man in training (Do you like steak? Oooh boy, this is the place!)
1 persnickety bossy tourist lady (Why haven't you got an hour? What else have you got to do?)


Quite a good collection of specimens from the Perthshire area, I reckon.

The tourism magazine recommended walking very quietly through the wood and listening to what the trees have to say. Beeches seem to keep their own counsel, but Alders will giggle if you slip on the path. Ferns, however, look to be quite a gossipy lot.

Also, human skin emanates the scent of honey when it is wrapped around someone very happy. It may even attract bees.