1891.
Sept. 2
Scotland.
Trossachs to Stronachlachar. - Alternating areas of
clouds and blue sky each cloud bringing a
torrent of rain sometimes mixed with hail.
A strong wind most of the day. 
  Left the Trossachs Hotel at 10.30 and took
the steamer up Loch Katrine intending to
go through to Oban but the weather looked
so threatening that we decided to stop at
the Stronachlachar Hotel where we landed in
a perfect downpour. 
  During the passage of the Loch I did not
see a single water-fowl or indeed any other
bird except a Rook or two but then it was
raining most of the time. Two Martins were
flying about the hotel and a Redstart and
some Tits calling in a neighboring grove
of young Scotch pines. I also saw a small
Falcon which I took to be a Merlin fly
across the cove near the landing. It looked
exactly like a male Falco columbarius and 
flew in the same manner. 
  Late in the afternoon we walked out 
about a mile on the road to Inversnaid
going as far as Loch Arklet. A flock of 8 or 10
Rooks flitted along ahead of us alighting in 
the road to peck at the horse droppings. 
A Pipit was the only small bird observed.
The mountains were very rugged and beautiful,
green to their summits with grass or heather with
many little streams falling in a succession of
cascades down their sides.