Burnett History

• About 100 m further along the path are a few young scots pine trees. These were planted in memory of a young lady who succumbed to cancer in 1994 and who had the leading role in Tensions in Trust, the community play which was staged at the Castle for the first Burnett Gathering in 1992.

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• Most of the bushes along the Loch shore are Blackthorn or Sloe. Sloe Gin is an excellent liqueur. We have made it in the past. The sloe berries are picked after a frost and individually they are pierced to allow the juice to escape. They are then added to gin and sugar. The process is laborious and the results were not as good as what is available in high street, and probably more expensive.

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• Although you don’t see it easily, the Loch abounds with wildlife. When there was more open water, There were muny ducks to be seen and there was a colony of black-headed gulls which made their nests on little islands of vegetation. This is no more because of the danger of predators. The loch has silted up and vegetation increased. There is a plan and wish to remove much of the vegetation and return it to open water.

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• A newcomer to the Loch is the starling. Every evening, starlings congregate before roosting. They arrive in small flocks and then join to become one making impressive patterns in the sky before suddenly dropping into the reeds.

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• C 325 paces further along the loch shore is the Crannog about 100 m into the loch.

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Please be advised that it is too wet to attempt to reach it on foot.

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