Tour Scotland short 4K Winter travel video clip, with bagpipes music, of Red Deer Stags on visit to Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Red deer are Scotland’s largest surviving native wild land mammal. Red deer are a distinctive rusty red colour in summer turning to a brown winter coat. They have a short tail and a pale rump patch. Males are called stags and have antlers up to a metre long. These branch like horns drop off in the spring and are grown again in the summer ready for the autumn rut, or breeding season. Stags live in small wandering groups, except during the rut when they become solitary and fight other stags for the control of a hind herd. Red deer are a native species having migrated to Britain from Europe 11,000 years ago. This famous Scottish Glen was the site the of the famous Massacre of Glencoe which began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen at Invercoe, Inverrigan, and Achnacon, although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. 38 MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by Campbell guests who had accepted their hospitality. This Highland location featured a lot in Skyfall the James Bond movie, mainly because it is the most famous Scottish glen and one of the most dramatic landscapes in the world, it also featured in Highlander, Rob Roy, Braveheart and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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