Culdearn House (Highland)

“Speyside has much to offer the more active visitor. You can visit distilleries, castles, and other attractions…there is bird watching at the famous RSPB Loch Garten osprey observation hide, and forest walks on Rothiemurchus Estate close by. You can also visit a Falconry Centre or the famous herd of Reindeer on the Cairngorm Mountain.” So says Culdearn’s website. It is indeed a stunningly beautiful part of Scotland, but…this being Scotland you can surely go and kill some of the region’s birds and deer too” Of course you can: “The hills around Grantown rank among the riches [sic] in Britain for grouse, stag and pheasant.” Culdearn House is even a member of “the British Association for Shooting and Conservation”, a horribly influential lobbying group that promotes the slaughter of wildlife all over the UK…