To walk up one of my local burns is always a pleasure the water flow can be a torrent or a trickle flickering with sunlight or moody and forbidding but never dull. If the burn is graced with a healthy supply of trout parr kingfisher and goosander maybe seen but almost always a dipper can be found feeding on insect larvae and very small fish.
The lednoch burn
In this sepia I chose a spot where water is diverted with the aid of a mini weir to a derelict millrace a gnarled old oak bows over the water and sunlight falls with a golden glow in the distance.
This burn is a regular walk and is visited by goosanders and the occasional kingfisher but the dipper is always present and I can’t wait to hear him singing in the spring.