Anybody see more than 15?

The forecast rain didn't really materialise, but the wind was pretty strong. We were just going for a low level walk initially, but the tops were clear so we went into the Northern Coires. The path from the ski area is really well made and you get into Coire an Sneachda without much effort. On the way up we saw a group of at least 30 Red Grouse; something I had never experienced before. The coire lochans had all but dried up with the recent dry weather, and it was reasonably warm even at 1100 metres. We walked back along the moraine on the east of the coire and heard some Ptarmigan croaking 100 metres away, so sat down in the lee and eventually saw them in the rocks. They are just changing to winter plumage and were difficult to spot in the grey rocks. We thought there were 13, but looking at part of the photo reckon there are 15 in this shot. Can you see more?

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