{"id":22580,"date":"2026-09-15T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22580"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:17:04","slug":"half-the-finlas-water-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/half-the-finlas-water-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Half the Finlas Water Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"22581\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/half-the-finlas-water-loop\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-1024x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"3x3 grid of images, photos round a map where they were taken. From Top Left: Road to Finlas water, singlet rack, grass on each side; Dor Better on Bracken, shiney black bettle; Buff tailed bumble bee on Devils Bit Scabious; Fence post with a loop of fence wire, grey background due to low clouds\/mist; Map trac round Finlas water in red. A small tree in a misty landscape; An eagle, wings outstretched in silhouette; Grass-of-Parnassus flow; small whilre mushroom with slender stalk and veil. growing in moss\" class=\"wp-image-22581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-620x620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-668x668.jpg 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-14-finlas-hills-map-square.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finlas Water Hills started bright, low (400m or so) clouds. Quite a few birds, ravens, crows, hoodies, buzzards, a kestrel, pipits. Between Creaghan &amp; Ruisg put up a snipe. By then clouds thick, visibility 30-100 metres. Flora turning, lots of scabious, some grass of Parnassus. Finally an eagle. Turned round at Creag an Leinibh as I didn&#8217;t fancy the walk down to the Finlas Water from the South in the mirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Map and more photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/walks\/maps.html?m=2026-09-14T14-12Finlas.gpx&amp;f=72177720335609450\">14-09-2026 Finlas Water Hills<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finlas Water Hills started bright, low (400m or so) clouds. Quite a few birds, ravens, crows, hoodies, buzzards, a kestrel, pipits. Between Creaghan &#038; Ruisg put up a snipe. By then clouds thick, visibility 30-100 metres. Flora turning, lots of scabious, some grass of Parnassus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/117275464463496325","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3mvksmw2fcg2d"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[953,891],"tags":[671,1643,686,663],"post_format":[],"class_list":["post-22580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-posse","category-walknote","tag-fauna","tag-finlas-water","tag-flora","tag-walk","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5Sc","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22584,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22580"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}