THE GLEN ESK RETREAT FOLK AND AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM. ANGUS. SCOTLAND.
This is a centre for the community of Glen Esk in Angus and home to the much admired Glen Esk Folk Museum. It is community owned by the Glen Esk Trust and run by a lively team of staff and volunteers.The original Retreat, now demolished, was a cottage, built by Captain Wemyss in the 1840s as an escape from the sea. Newly refurbished, it continues to offer a genial mix of the tranquil and convivial, for everyone. The Glen Esk Folk Museum is for some people a discovery, for others a home to revisit, over and again.
Local school teacher Greta Michie opened the museum in 1955, using innovative methods of telling ordinary people’s stories by drawing on living history ideas being then pioneered in Scandinavia. Their reputation for home baking is sustained by a delicious variety of cakes, scones and tray bakes, lovingly made on the premises, using many of the recipes used in glen homes for decades. Meals and snacks are made from locally sourced provisions whenever possible. There is something for everyone, whatever your appetite, whatever the day of the week, whatever the time of day. Glenesk Folk Museum is a museum located in the Glen Esk valley, in Tarfside, Angus, Scotland, which is run by members of the local community. It is about 9 miles (14 km) north of the village of Edzell. It is housed in a former shooting lodge, known as 'The Retreat', which used to belong to the earls of Dalhousie. The museum contains artefacts and documents related to the history of the surrounding area. The museum's artefacts are arranged thematically into rooms, including spaces covering music and costume. There are reconstructions of rooms from the 1850s, including a children's room. The museum also has a document archive for genealogical research, including Census records from 1841 to 1891 and a partial record of births, marriages and deaths in the Glen and the parishes of Edzell and Lethnot. This room has computers. The museum has a small collection of musical instruments, highlights of which include a trapezoidal Savart-style violin that was played for many years on the streets of Aberdeen by an itinerant musician, and a coach horn known to have been used locally as late as the 1930s on one of the last horse-drawn stagecoaches operating in the United Kingdom.
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Hiking Scotland Glen Esk to Queens Well
Whenever we visit Scotland, we always find ourselves the happiest when we are outdoors exploring. My husband is originally from Scotland but we always manage to do something or see something he's never seen. We had the pleasure to hike while it was snowing and it was so magical.
On this trip we ventured out to a place called Queen's Well, an ornamental well erected to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria. She drank from this well in 1861. It's recommended that you don't drink from it because it's been polluted by the coins tossed in. I did stick my finger in to taste the water.
We had the pleasure to hike while it was snowing and it was so magical.The hike starts by parking in a church parking lot and walking over the bridge. The next little road is what you walk down and you have to go through a few gates. Yes, someone's land but you are protected by the Right of Way of Scotland. Please leave the land how you found it.
Continue through the gates and as long as the river stays to your left, you will find your way. Keep a lookout for wildlife. Once you reach the well, you can continue on and check out the castle. We didn't do that because it was starting to get dark.
And if you go during December or when it's snowing, watch out for black ice.
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Dance of the Adders - Glen Esk
From bbc.co.uk:
In the mating season the male Adders look for females and when they find one the male flicks his tongue along her back and sides, both snakes vibrate their tails and the male moves along her back and follows her movements. After mating the male will sometimes remain coiled around the female.
The males are very territorial and if another male tries to move in there may be a dance of the adders. Obviously theyre not really dancing its more a duel, a way of establishing whos superior without being injured. The snakes never attempt to bite each other.
The two snakes raise half their bodies off the ground in an attempt to push their rival down. This maybe done belly to belly or back to back or they may become entwined together. The pair topple to the ground and then rise again several times. They continue wrestling coiled around each other and moving from side to side.
The winner of the fight is almost always the larger and stronger snake. Sometimes the winning male will stay with the female for several days and mate with her several times.
Adders plus other wildlife
Adders filmed over a period of three warm days in March 2009. They must have just emerged from hibernation and were busy absorbing the suns rays oblivious to the fact they were being watched. Most of the time they were not this animated and just lay around motionless- this just shows the highlights.
If you go to visit Foulshaw Moss be sure to wear good protective footwear and please remember adders are a protected species so please try not to disturb them.
Male adder by river at Invermark 15-05-2010 Clip 1.MPG
This male adder takes up a favourite position close to both water and cover. The surrounding area is classic adder habitat unspoilt, well-vegetated with a layer of dead bracken over loose rocky ground, and full of its favourite food slowworms!
Wobbly landing at Loch Wharral
Steve Peach examines an adder
Steve Peach, Senior Ranger at Queen Elizabeth Country Park in Hampshire (UK), talks about measuring and weighing adders as part of a tracking programme in the Park.
Adder Dance/Combat, 6th April 2012
Here you can see three male adders in this video/film clip, there is yet another(fourth) male adder close by, and also the one female present(although she is hidden in the undergrowth). As one of the male snakes approaches the area in which courtship is under way, he is met by the the more dominant male, and a short burst of the Adder Dance follows. The intruder is chased off by the more dominant male, then the winner(for now!) returns to his female, who he then goes on to mate.
Whilst all this happens, the other male/onlooker (who hardly moves) is ignored by all.
Adder
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The Shooting Show - Angus hind stalking and hill gralloch
Andy Malcolm is out on the hill in pursuit of hinds, and Byron follows him all the way with the camera. The Glen Esk terrain is as unforgiving as ever - and the weather, not to mention some intervening sheep, threaten to derail the stalk before it has even begun. Will Andy get closer to completing the cull quota, or will he strike out?
Andy's also in action as our resident stalking expert, giving top tips on how to perform a quick, clean and effective gralloch on the hill. Stalkers, don't miss it.
Adders dancing
Two male adders dancing (competing in their courtship ritual) on the Ox Drove in Wiltshire - April 2011
Woodcock pair, Glenesk (HD if selected)
This pair had just mated and sat hoping we couldn't see them.
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Adder (male) - Central Scotland - 1st April 2018
One of two seen this morning
Male adder
Adder sunbathing up Glen Esk.
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After running over it on my bike I went back to find it indignantly slithering off, by the amount of hissing going on I don't think he was happy!!
Male adder at Invermark 09-05-2010 Clip 1.MPG
The adder at close-quarters beautiful, alert and seemingly fearless.
Dance of the Adders - 2012
The Dance of the Adders at the British Wildlife Centre, taken mid April 2012. The on/off weather conditions of April made the dance a very on/off affair, but finally a decent spell of weather brought out the males for the spectacular ritual.