"Birds of the East End": The Erskine family have long enjoyed their trips to birds and their nests in the East End. A favourite walk is to Loch Ghille - Caluim which hosts a colony of heron on a small island, where some fifteen pairs nest every year. The island is dense with brambles, honey-suckles and rowan trees and access is wading across or using a bum-boat - welly boots essential! Most of the nests have three eggs. Time is of the essence as it would not be right to disturb the parents long enough to threaten the incubation. The approach to the Loch is somewhat hazardous as there are danger-ous bogs which have claimed many a beast. Near the Loch are the ruins known as Canada, so called as the inhabitants of a century ago emigrated and the settlement was named after their memory. With relative peace assured, the herons moved in.