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Burghead is a Moray Firth coastal village built on a headland that was once one of the most significant Pictish fortresses in Scotland — the Burghead Fort — and is home to the extraordinary carved Burghead Bull stones and the ancient Burning of the Clavie fire festival, held every January 11th. The fishing harbour, the coastal turf of the headland and the sandy beach of Burghead Bay give the village a distinct identity on the Laigh of Moray shoreline. Oilseed rape on the arable land immediately south of the village provides a strong spring flow from late April, followed by white clover on the coastal grassland and cliff-top turf through June and July. Sea buckthorn on the dune edges and bramble on the inland field margins extend the season into late summer.

Oilseed rape on the coastal Laigh of Moray is the defining spring flow: dense sowings between Elgin, Forres and Fochabers flower from late April and can fill a super rapidly on warm days. White clover follows on the improved grassland and roadside verges of the coastal plain through June and July. Sycamore is the dominant woodland forage tree, supplemented by hawthorn on field margins and elder along burn and river corridors. The heather of the Speyside hills and the Dava Moor above Grantown provides a significant late-summer crop accessible from Forres, Keith and the inland villages. Raspberries are grown commercially in parts of the Spey valley, adding a nectar source less common elsewhere in Scotland.