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Photo Blog: February 2025

February has been a great month as we moved into our NEW Reindeer Centre. We opened the doors to the public on the 8th of February for the very first time – hoorah!

The Hill Trips have been running as normal every day (apart from one where we had to cancel due to wild weather!) and we’ve been taking visitors to the free ranging herd here on Cairngorm. We’ve also had reindeer on display in the Paddocks for the February half-term holidays. The entire herd is now back out free ranging in the hills, split between two locations. I love this time of year – getting out to see the reindeer in their mountain home every day is an absolute privilege.

Here’s a selection of photos just taken on my phone over the last month.

7th of February: Feeding the herd with Sheena and Hen, look at that lovely blue sky. We took four reindeer down off the hill and into our Paddocks where they stayed for a few days for the start of the February half-term.
8th of February: A big occasion – Tilly cutting the red ribbon opening our brand-new Reindeer Centre.
8th of February: Helsinki and her son Irish relaxing.
11th of February: Gorgeous Fern! The oldest reindeer in the entire herd. She’ll turn 18 in the spring and definitely deserves spoiling. You can see the evidence on her nose!
11th of February: A lovely pic of Fern and Andi.
12th of February: Moving the herd in to position ready for a Hill Trip. Emmental and Borlotti at the front.
13th of February: Trilby looking beautiful on a sunny day!
14th of February: Holy Moley posing for a photo whilst the others eat on the line. On Hill Trips, she often justs waits for the handfeed and doesn’t bother with the food on the ground!
14th of February: Vanilla coming in to see if there’s any more food on offer.
17th of February: Helsinki and her son Irish… again. They’re a very sweet pair!
18th of February: Emmental leading the herd to the Hill Trip location.
19th of February: Macchiato and a beautiful sky behind!
20th of February: Alba, one of our hand-reared calves from 2023, out free ranging and doing incredibly well! We’re very proud of her!
20th of February: Moving ther herd on a very windy and wild day!
23rd of February: The Hill trip was cancelleld as the weather was WILD! So here’s a pic from the Paddocks. Dr Seuss looking very relaxed.
25th of February: The lovely Winnie, like Alba, she was hand-reared in 2023.
26th of February: Lolly.
26th of February: These two are aleays stuck together like glue, Florence and her wee boy Cuppa.
27th of February: Latte and her mum Brie.
28th of February: Emm at the back of the herd doing a super job getting them moving.

Ruth

One Reply to “Photo Blog: February 2025”

  1. I love that your oldest reindeer is named Fern, and you have another girl named Florence. My grandma was named Florence Fern, but went by Fern. Lovely lady. Can’t wait to visit y’all in June!

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