The walk leads through birch woodland with huge juniper bushes and overlooks the wettest areas of marsh, where you can see waterfowl. Wood warblers, redstarts and tree pipits are heard and seen in summer. In the clearings you may see Scotch argus and fritillary butterflies. In the winter fieldfares, redwings, siskins and redpolls frequent the woods. Goldeneyes, tufted ducks and cormorants are seen here all year round, occasionally accompanied by red-breasted mergansers, goosanders and mute swans.
Ospreys regularly fish the loch.
A church has been here since early Celtic times and its bronze bell is 1,000 years old. A chorus of rooks squawks nearby in spring and summer. At the junction with the B9152 turn left towards Kingussie. Caledonian pine forest clinging to the steep face of the Cairngorms in the distance can only exist to 600 metres in altitude forming a neat so-called 'tree line'. Here you can get close views of native wildlife only glimpsed in the wild plus animals now extinct in Britain such as European bison, lynx and wolves.