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Page 1 Balmoral in the Cairngorms National Park  
  Balmoral Estate Ranger Service
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Balmoral Ranger Service
the service has been in existents for over 30 years.
It has two full time rangers at the present time and
some part time staff.
You can contact the ranger service at
Spittal of Glen Muick Tel 013397 55059
or at Balmoral Estate Office Tel 013397 42534
The head ranger is Glyn Jones and Fiona Smith is the second ranger. The ranger service is part funded by Scottish natural heritage. It is a government body for conservation and enhancement of Scotland’s natural heritage and landscapes. Balmoral Estate website Link: The website is a treasure-trove of information and it is well worth, having a look.
www.balmoralcastle.com
     We expect to bring you some videos from the ranger service in February 09.
   
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Listen to a collection of sound files from Head Ranger Glyn Jones.
Each file covers varies aspects of the rangers service what they do and how they carry it out. And the management of the public and estate.

A history of Glyn Jones head ranger Click a Sound file Link to play. The Estate Ranger Service
The Rangers and the Public Public Access to the Park part 1 Public Access to the Park part 2
Mountain Access Wildlife on the Balmoral Estate Deer on the Balmoral Estate
     
       
There is substantial wildlife on the estate covering Mammals and birds.
The birds on Balmoral estate cove four distanced areas on the estate the rivers and lochs, woodland, moorland and the mixed habitat.
The type of birds vary over the estate Osprey, Diper, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Grey Heron, Goosander and Black Throated Diver are all related to the water environment. In woodland you have Siskin, Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Creeper, Willow Warbler, Common Crossbill, Wood Pigeon and Black Grouse. On the moorland Ring Ouzel, Meadow Pipit, Stone Chat, Lapwing, Wheatear, Skylark, Curlew, Raven, Hooded Crow and Red Grouse. Within the mixed habitat you can get Pied Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Swallow, Wren, Lapwing, Cuckoo, Chaffinch, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Sparrow hawk, Buzzard and the Golden Eagle.
The ranger service print a leaflet of birds on the estate, you can get a copy, at the glen Muick visitor centre. To help your identification of the different birds and the times they are here, as not all the birds stay all the year, on the estate.
There is all sow a very interesting little book Loch Muick and Lochnagar with some interesting topic’s like the history, Geology, Plants, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, insects and other subjects like estate management, the ranger service, Safety and a contacts list among other things this again can be got from the visitor centre in glen Muick.
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