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Glencorse
Gorse 1024 x 768 176K |
Yellow Gorse bushes and Scots Pine trees in front of Glencorse reservoir. Turnhouse Hill is at the back. |
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Glencorse 1024 x 768 119K |
Looking down on Glencorse Reservoir from the southwest slopes of Castlelaw Hill. A line of Scots Pine trees borders the road leading from Flotterstone to Loganlea Reservoir. |
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Glencorse
Rays 1024 x 768 61K |
Sunbeams through a hole in the clouds are shining on Glencorse Reservoir. January 1999. |
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Ice
Ducks 6 1152 x 864 259K |
Photographed on 2nd March 2003. The Pentlands reservoirs had been covered in ice but were melting. Some of the ducks are climbing out of the water and onto the ice. A line of Scots Pine trees borders the road which runs along the foot of Castlelaw. |
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Ice
Ducks 8 1024 x 768 84K |
A few moments later and all four ducks have made it onto the ice and are beginning to preen their feathers. |
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Glencorse Loganlea 567 x 768 65K |
Photographed from Castlelaw Hill, facing
WSW towards the distant peak of West Kip (551 metres). Glencorse Reservoir is in the foreground and Loganlea is in the distance. |
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Glencorse 0508 1152 x 864 347K |
In the preceding picture there is a small part of Glencorse Reservoir isolated by the causeway crossing its far end. These 3 pictures show part of that area after the water level has gone down. |
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Glencorse 0508a 1152 x 864 325K |
The strange patterns in the mud may have been started by the webbed feet of ducks or geese, the cracks following later as the mud dried out. |
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Glencorse 0508b 1152 x 864 395K |
A closer look at the marks in the mud. |
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Glencorse from Turnhouse 04 1280 x 1024 323K |
Three new, large images of Glencorse Reservoir, photographed from Turnhouse Hill. At the other side of the water, behind a row of Scots Pine trees, is the private road that leads to Loganlea Reservoir. The strip of trees conceals a footpath at its left edge which leads up to the path round Castlelaw. |
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Glencorse from Turnhouse 05 1280 x 1024 308K |
The camera has been panned to the left in this second shot. The road serves walkers and cyclists. People fishing are allowed to drive up the road but may have to open and close gates. The driveway to Kirkton Farm branches uphill. Behind the strip of trees is the footpath through Maiden's Cleugh to Balerno. Kirk Burn drains Capelaw on the left and Castlelaw on the right. |
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Glencorse from Turnhouse 06 1280 x 1024 365K |
In this third picture the camera has been panned to the right to show the eastern end of the reservoir and its island, connect by a causeway. Nobody is allowed on the island, not even fishermen. |
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Glencorse Causeway IR 1280 x 851 341K |
The private road from Flotterstone to Loganlea runs over this causeway at the western tip of Glencorse reservoir. The small area to the left (west) of the road in this infrared picture is frequently dry. The water is high in May 2006 unlike in the 0508 pictures above taken in August 2005. |
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Glencorse IR 1280 x 814 306K |
This second infrared picture shows almost all of the reservoir to the west of the causeway. What looks like a small barbed wire fence poking out of the water is actually an extension to the dry-stane dyke (stone wall) which is now totally submerged. The hill at the back is Black Hill. |
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