06-03-2026 06:30 via theguardian.com

Country diary: Wildcats are here and they’re on the march | Amanda Thomson

Cairngorms: Conservation efforts to help them are working – numbers are still small, but I’ve seen signs in the late winter snowIt is always interesting to see how overnight snow reveals what goes on under the cover of night. Around the granny pines, I see the smaller fore and larger hind prints of a red squirrel. Across the fields and along pinewood paths, there is evidence of hares and badgers, pine martens and deer, before they veered off, back into the heather and blaeberry
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