{"id":879,"date":"2011-04-14T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2011-04-14T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:07:37","slug":"auch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Auch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a few days in Perthshire, we stayed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auchteralythsteadings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auchteralyth Steadings<\/a> which are highly recommended,\u00a0 Anne Fedele, the owner, has done everything to furnish the cottages to five star level, it&#8217;s all very dog friendly and you <em>will <\/em>be checked out by Kashka the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog.\u00a0 There are hens and horses too, plus glorious views over Strathmore, especially if you are there for sunrise or sunset,<\/p>\n<p>The area around Alyth has some spectacular scenery and the birdlife is plentiful.\u00a0 There are also many wee tearooms with excellent scones and jam; yes, a lifetime&#8217;s quest continues.\u00a0 A\u00a0 new contender for top scone would be The Dirliebane tea room in Alyth town square.<\/p>\n<p>But back to ornithology; we called in at the RSPB reserve on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/reserves\/guide\/l\/lochofkinnordy\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loch of Kinnordy<\/a>, where we sat in the East hide.\u00a0 Rumours of osprey sightings abounded, we didn&#8217;t actually see one but we <strong>did <\/strong>talk to a chap with a phenomenally well endowed camera; he showed us a picture which he had just taken of &#8220;some big burd&#8221; which of course was an osprey, so well done to him.\u00a0 We then got very excited every time we saw anything which wasn&#8217;t a crow.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a few days in Perthshire, we stayed at Auchteralyth Steadings which are highly recommended,\u00a0 Anne Fedele, the owner, has done everything to furnish the cottages to five star level, it&#8217;s all very dog friendly and you will be checked out by Kashka the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog.\u00a0 There are hens and horses too, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}