Morsgail is a nature lover’s paradise.
Part of the Estate is designated in a Special Area of Conservation, because of the Atlantic Salmon stocks and another because of the unique bog lands and peat-stained lochs.
We have the most extreme and extensive oceanic example of wet heath in the UK and possibly Europe. Here can be found rare flora, such as Erica Tetralix.
Woolly fringe-moss Racomitrium lanuginosum is abundant, along with bell heather (Erica Cinerea) and Atlantic mosses and liverworts. The latter are more prominent in this area than on any other known wet heath site. Morsgail also has an abundance of the rare Atlantic moss Campylopus Shawii |
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Golden eagles are seen regularly as are white tailed sea eagles. We also have peregrine falcons and merlins and in the spring cuckoos and corncrakes arrive from Africa along with swallows. We have a good population of Red Grouse and golden plover, with its haunting call. |
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In the autumn woodcock and snipe arrive from Scandinavia to feed in our wetlands. At the same time, great skeins of geese pass overhead, on their way south from Greenland, along with whooper swans from Iceland.
The red deer is the largest British mammal and we have an average population of 400 -500 on the Estate. We also have otters and blue hares. |
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