Autumn Trees By The River Tay On Visit To Dunkeld Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of trees by River Tay, from and by the Thomas Telford Bridge, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire. The River Tay, Scottish Gaelic: Tatha, is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laoigh, then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay, in the centre of Scotland, then southeasterly through Dunkeld and Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee. Thomas Telford the builder of this bridge was born the son of a shepherd at Westerkirk, near Langholm, Dumfriesshire in August 1757. Autumn leaf color or colour is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American English All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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