Readers’ pictures of the week

A selection of pictures submitted by our readers.

• Form a queue there… sheep and their lambs file across a bridge over the River Borgie in Sutherland earlier this year in a photograph taken by Scone-based reader Peter Glover.

• Hillwalkers enjoy a clear, cold day at the weather station near the much-visited summit of Cairn Gorm, Britain’s sixth highest mountain at 4,084ft, in a photograph by Walter Baxter.

• Dr Dennis Connolly says he was ‘rewarded’ for braving blustery September showers during a trip to Melrose Abbey when he captured a rainbow.

• Autumn sun shines on walkers heading south on the West Highland Way from Inversnaid, as photographed by Rob Smallman from Dunblane.

• Jim Hunter was enthralled to witness an amazing display of the Aurora Borealis from his garden in Humbie, East Lothian, at 2am.

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