These scattered remnants of birch, rowan and willow are growing on rocky outcrops and other spots inaccessible to grazing animals, and not associated with watercourses as such. Occasionally, we are finding more "interesting" species such as montane willows, aspen or juniper, all of which signify a long history of native woodland at that location. Birch, rowan and willows are all more pioneer species, and can seed in at any time, or have their seed deposited by birds in the case of rowan. There have been a lot of these native woodland fragments in Glen Lochay, and we have been trying to map the ones associated directly with watercourses.
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