Seton Gordon's old pulley

Roy Dennis describes finding this pulley wheel in the Book 'Golden Eagles' by Laurie Campbell and Roy Dennis. -- Inverness-shire. 8th May, 1978 -- "Walking on through the wood, I suddenly discovered a huge eagle nest high up in the tree. I looked up with binoculars and was amazed, because the nest itself was supported by two great spars of timber wood. It was an artificial nest, but who had built it and how long ago? Later that day, I spoke to the forest ranger and he remembered that in the 1930s, when he was a child, his father had helped Seton Gordon build an artificial nest. Seton had been visiting the original nest on and off over the years, but when he returned one spring he found that it had become too heavy for the branch, which had snapped and the nest had tipped to the ground. Seton Gordon had persuaded a couple of locals to help him rebuild the eyrie. Later in the summer, we climbed to that nest to ring the youngster and hanging on the branch above, we found an old wooden pulley, which Seton and his friends had secured in order to pull up those great spars to support the nest. Years afterwards, I found the pulley on the ground; the rope had finally rotted and it had fallen down. I took it home ... a memento of this extraordinary nest."

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