Was up Tinto the other day. This pattern is on the eastern arm of the hill. What creates the outlines and shapes?

Is it dealing with Heather fires? (Intentional or unintentional.)

Creating particular habitat?

Attempts to rewild to help the southern Haggis? Or did it go extinct?

Thanks

by windy_on_the_hill

17 comments

  1. Grouse moors, some say it is to keep the bracken down whilst benefitting the grouse stock, others say it is a cynic way of ensuring nothing of value (ecologically speaking) can grow there and that bracken can be kept down if planting proper forest.

    PS you asked how: they set fire to it.

  2. It’s probably fields owned by different people and/or growing different things that sprout at different times of the year

  3. It’s caused by rich twats that think it’s “sport” to shoot at red grouse. They’ve turned half of Scotland into an ecological desert in the pursuit of shooting as many birds as possible.

  4. It’s rotational burning of heather to remove old woody plants and encourage fresh growth: its principally done as food for grouse (they need new, medium and old growth heather in their habitats)

  13. Thanks, now I’ve got Wild Mountain Thyme stuck in my head.

  14. I stand corrected those were partridge I saw near glen livet

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