Going with the Flow - Water in Freefall
Tumbling down the mountainsides, Highland burns create beautiful cascades and waterfalls as they descend towards the larger rivers in the bottom of the glens. In many cases the rocky gorges and steep sides of these burns provide the only sites where young trees, and particularly highly palatable species such as rowan, can grow successfully without being overgrazed by deer.
 This rowan sapling (Sorbus aucuparia), growing beside a waterfall on the Allt Coire Ghaidheil burn on West Affric, is one of very few that are regenerating without specific protection on the Estate.  Here, the schist bedrock underlying the Allt a Choire Bhuidhe burn on Dundreggan has been exposed in a series of stepped, parallel layers, creating this tier of cascades. |
 Cascading water flowing over boulders in the Allt na Imrich burn,  Young naturally-regenerating Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) beside a cascade on the Red Burn on Dundreggan.  Small cascade amongst icicles in winter on a burn near Badger Falls, |
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