Lupin, Magnum and Zoom enjoying the recent snowfall! 🤩 For anyone coming to visit us tomorrow (before we close for the rest of the month) please allow extra time to travel to us on snowy roads. ❄

We've got less than 10 calendars left for 2026, so if you realise you've missed your annual order of one - get in there VERY quickly! store.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/product/cale...

Time for the first blog of the year! Amy looks back at the last two calves to return to the hill enclosure in the autumn, Quickstep and Charleston :-D www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2026/01/02/c...

Happy Hogmanay! Huge thanks to all our followers over the past year! 🙏 We hope you all have a wonderful and peaceful start to 2026, just like Trilby here. We will continue to share lots of lovely photos and blogs throughout 2026 to keep you up to date with the goings on with our beautiful herd ✨

Orinoco & Mississippi were born in 2023 and as young cows they've spent the majority of the year free ranging in the hills. They're in great condition with lovely antlers! 🤩 They're now spending the last week of 2025 in the hill enclosure, taking their turn to meet & greet our Hill Trip visitors.

It's the last blog of the year, and Ruth's been busy with her camera once again! 📸🦌 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/12/26/p...

Merry Christmas from everyone at the Reindeer Centre! We hope you all have a wonderful day! 🎄🎅 We named this year's calves after different dances! 💃🕺💫 So here is seven-month-old Waltz to bring you some extra festive cheer!

Tomorrow is our final day of Christmas Fun and most of the slots tomorrow are now sold out. If anyone is unable to make a booking then please get in touch the office will be open from 9am and we will resell your tickets. We look forward to seeing everyone who has booked their tickets tomorrow! ✨

Friday is blog day! 🥳 This week's blog is all about reindeer calves and their antlers. From the average calf antlers to some of the most elaborate we've seen, and some of the wonkiest ones too! It's packed full of photos, enjoy... www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/12/19/w...

LAST POSTAGE DATES! 📮✉️⚡ If anyone is hoping to receive an adoption pack or something from our online shop for Christmas Day please get any last-minute orders in ASAP! Last posting dates are: 15th December (tomorrow!) - for Europe 17th December - 2nd Class 19th December - 1st Class Thank you ✨🎅🙏

This week's blog comes from Daisy! 🤩 Daisy started working with us full time in August, she was very quick to learn the names and characters of the reindeer. How did she do it?! Have a read here... www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/12/12/l...

Juniper on #tongueouttuesdays 😝 Juniper is the only reindeer in the herd who doesn't grow any antlers. She is five years old and is a mum to three-year-old Fab, and seven-month-old Cha Cha!

First 'Christmas Fun' of the season! ✨ We've had a fab day with 6 beautiful reindeer on display in the Paddocks, herders on hand for Q&As, quiz for kids and Santa! 🎄🎅🎁 Christmas Fun will be running on weekends leading up to Christmas, and the 22nd - 24th! www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/christmas-fun/

This week's blog is all about the beautiful Christie! She's eight years old and has been a fantastic mother over the years. She's very distinctive with a gorgeous, speckled face and always grows big antlers! Read all about her and her offspring here... 😍 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/12/05/c...

Chickpea and her calf Jig on the hill this morning 🤩

Dante says... lost for what to buy someone for Christmas? 🎁 📨How about gift vouchers for our Hill Trip? You will receive an email with voucher codes which can be passed on to the recipient(s) - perfect for that person who just seems to have everything! www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/gift-voucher...

As always, Friday means BLOG DAY!🥳 This week's blog is Ruth's November Photo blog which includes lots of lovely snowy photos! Enjoy! ❄ www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/11/28/p...

99, along with our other three pure white (leucistic) reindeer, spend most of the year sticking out like sore thumbs. In the recent snow however, he's been perfectly camouflaged! ❄🤩

This week's blog comes from the wonderful Kathy, who volunteered with us for a week back in September. It's a really lovely read so grab a cuppa and enjoy! Thanks for writing it, Kathy, we’re looking forward to seeing you back with the reindeer soon! 🤩 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/11/21/v...

Winter has arrived in the Cairngorms! 🤩 Here is Sundae enjoying a snowy morning on the hill. ❄

BLOG DAY! 🥳 This week's blog is all about a three-year-old female reindeer called Glacée. In the past she's not stood out much in the herd, but after having her first calf in the spring she's become much more dominant! Take a read here... www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/11/14/g...

Dante and her 6 mth old daughter are looking fantastic! 🤩 Dante is now 8 yrs old and has been a very successful breeding female over the years with 3 other daughters to her name - Mangetout, Glacée and Amazon! Her youngest is proving to be quite shy in character but is slowly growing in confidence.

A (wild) red deer hind and calf passing through the hill enclosure a few weeks back, to the mild interest of some of the reindeer. Red deer are much more agile than reindeer and can jump the fences of the enclosure, but we only see them inside it a couple of times a year probably.

This weeks blog includes lots of beautiful artwork on postage stamps from all over the arctic! 🖌 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/11/07/r...

Zoom and Kernel waiting for their breakfast! 🤩

Sleigh training has started here at the reindeer centre. 🔔 Mr. Whippy at the front and Magnum at the back are both learning the ropes alongside experienced boys Hemp and Aztec. 🤩

Orinoco is currently out free-ranging so it was lovely to catch up with her today! 🤩 She friendly and inquisitive without being pushy, a really lovely lass. (Behind Orinoco is Brew to the left and Kuksa to the right)

Friday is blog day! 🥳 As it's the last Friday of October, this one is a photo blog jam-packed full of photos taken over the last month featuring lots of wonderful members of the herd. Can you spot your favourite reindeer?! www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/10/31/p...

Whilst most of the males in our hill enclosure were waiting patiently for their breakfast in the cloud, the cows and calves were happily lying above the cloud enjoying the morning sun! Fiona went up to find them and herded them down, meanwhile Andi and Ruth waited with the boys in the cloud! ☁☀️

Adzuki and the boys snoozing on a recent misty morning. 🤩 (Behind Adzuki we have got Jester, Zoom Cowboy, Busby, Kernel and 99)

Happy Sunday from Sundae! 😍 Sundae features quite a lot on our social media - she's just so photogenic! She's had a brilliant year and became a mum back in the spring. She's currently in our hill enclosure with her 5-month-old daughter, her three sisters, and her 14-year-old mum, Spy!

Whilst we share this week's blog, the herders are frantically trying to get the October newsletter in the post to all our adopters! This blog features articles from a newsletter from 20 yrs ago - some things have changed greatly, other things not so much! www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/10/24/s...

Beret and her lovely male calf! 🤩 Beret is spending the autumn in the hill enclosure after free ranging all summer with her son. She's a fantastic mum, has a friendly character, and is thoroughly enjoying hand feeding from our visitors every day!

Nuii, Fab and Suebi have NEWS! The October newsletter is away to the printers now, so if any of you adopters have changed addresses, or would like your newsletter posted directly to you rather than to the person who purchased your adoption for you - NOW would be a mighty fine time to tell us!

This week's blog is from our fantastic volunteer Emm. Regular blog readers will have read Emm's wonderful blogs before. They're always packed full of information and funny stories! This one is from Emm's visit in February 2025. www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/10/17/v...

"Well hello, pretty lady!" The bulls are in full rutting mode just now - here's Butter strutting his stuff. Not sure Winnie is impressed though!

NEW BLOG! 🥳 In April Kate joined the team as a full-time reindeer herder after many years of doing stints of seasonal work with the herd - hooray! Read all about her journey to full-time herding in this week's lovely blog! 😍 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/10/10/k...

A very sleepy Dr Seuss! It's hard work being this fantastic! 😂 Dr Seuss has been back in the hill enclosure here on Cairngorm for the last couple of weeks. He's been on top form as ever, devouring hand feed, posing in photos with visitors, and generally lazing around!

Mangetout and Holy Moley have both spent all summer out free-ranging in the hills. They both had a year off calving last year so we have brought them into the enclosure for the rut this year. 🤩 Holy Moley only ever grows one antler, whereas Mangetout grows an enourmous set. Aren't they phenomenal?

This week's blog is written by Daisy! Daisy volunteered with us for a week in May and we were delighted to welcome her back as an official reindeer herder in August. Her blog is a fantastic read, all about her first month working as a herder... enjoy! 🤩 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/10/03/m...

Problems on the hill road after Storm Amy! Now we are into the winter season, full waterproofs (inc over-trousers) are often mandatory to take part in a Hill Trip, for safety reasons. Hypothermia is a very real issue on a cold wet day in the mountains - and one that we'd really rather avoid! 🥶

This calf has been in the enclosure for the last wee while, he's getting really tame and inquisitive! 🤩 He has been named, but, as always, we don't name any of our calves online until the October newsletter has announced them to our adopters. 🤫

Handsome Jester striding towards us on this morning's hill trip! 🤩

It's #WorldRiversDay - a day to celebrate & raise awareness for the critical role rivers play worldwide. In 2023 we named our calves after world rivers. We have a Nile, Shannon and Yukon etc... but the star of this post is the beautiful Amazon! She's a lovely lass and behind her is her mum, Dante! 😍

It's the last Friday of the month so time for our monthly photo blog. The reindeer are looking fantastic at this time of year so it’s well worth a wee look! 👌📸 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...

These photos were taken just over 4 months apart! Morven's calf has grown into a chunky little lass and is growing in confidence now she's back in the hill enclosure and meeting visitors every day. And Morven herself is in excellent condition but has grown the most peculiar set of curly antlers! 😂

Happy Monday from the gorgeous Brie and her son, Cicero! 🤩 Brie was born in 2013 when all of our calves were named after different types of Cheese and Cicero was born in 2020 when all of our calves were named after Beans, Seeds and Peas. Cicero's name comes from the Latin for Chickpea! 🧀🫘🫛

This week's blog is from herder Amy, and is all about her time out with our free-range reindeer this summer. It's full of photos of this years calves, grab and cuppa and enjoy! 🤩 www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2025/09/19/s...

Borlotti's calf has been getting a lot of love on hill trips recently due to his distinctive white colouring but we think Borlotti is pretty gorgeous too! 🤩 Borlotti's calf, pictured behind her here, is leucistic, a genetic condition causing a partial lack of pigmentation.

It's #tongueouttuesday👅! Here's lovely Magnum, not looking as handsome as normal...