We Call it Home


My images and stories from Scotland.

We are both Scots, I hail from Aberdeen, the town of my birth and Lossiemouth, our home town; my lovely lady Jo is originally a Gourock lass, we met on the wonder that was the internet.
We moved back home to Scotland in 2022, to a very rural location which we now absolutely love. The walks, the wildlife, the sky.
As an amateur photographer I am making the most of every moment I can, I am out walking or wandering our “patch” as often as possible, almost always with a camera.

This is where I’d like to share memories of those wanderings and musings.

I no longer do mainstream (anti)social media, it is ruining our lives!

My Flickr photos are here

Photographers I admire.
Vicente Concha

I have started using PeerTube to share my time lapse videos and any birds / wildlife clips I can make, I’d love it if you have a look some time.
Scozmo’s Photery

Thinking of visiting? Just like to see more of our beautiful wee country?
I Subscribe to Hidden Scotland.
Have a look at Walk Highlands

Finally, I got lucky

That could be misleading I guess ….. that aside, I got lucky today on my patch walk, with my bird photography.

Here we go again

Well, it’s August and in the Northern hemisphere, “nichts is fair drawin’ in” and It’s Aurora season! Woohoo and we had a clear sky night, mostly so …..

A trip to the reservoir

I decided it was a perfect day for a visit to Backwater reservoir today, a wee bit overcast, bit of a breeze but warm and, a Tuesday so should be quiet up there. The car park was empty when I arrived, a good sign so, I gathered up my gear; bum-bag of snack, binoculars and…

I’m just a walkin’ in the sunshine

Hi all, I’ve been out for a wander around the patch this morning, all pretty quiet but a beautiful day is building. We’re lucky to have had a few days of rain, much of England and Wales are suffering drought conditions, something isn’t right is it?

Yellow Wagtail

July 29th 2026 – I was on one of my walks on the Fife Coastal path when I met a local expert out on his rounds with his wee broon dug when I mentioned I’d been looking around the area for Yellow Wagtails, he told me where I needed to be to guarantee seeing them.…

Monday, Monday Pt.2

I walked back to the flat to collect Jo and we set off for Crail, back along the same shore 🙂 I love walking the fife Coastal path so whether I do it twice in one day makes no difference to me.

Cellardyke again … Monday, Monday

My chores don’t change much in the mornings whether on holiday or not; I get up first, usually, make the coffee and toast, we then eat and chat and when that’s done, I make a pot of mint tea for Jo and I have a Radiance or Green Mint tea. I forgot my tea this…

Cellardyke again …

I absolutely love strolling along this coast, the land is mostly flat with a clear path and fields one side, rocks and sea on t’other, perfect birding location and from time to time, the odd migrant drops in to this area. A few days back a Long-tailed Shrike was spotted just up the road, I…

Cellardyke again …. well, almost

I said I was going to to to keep up with my days down in Fife and on the 26th, I created my next post …. Only I didn’t. I was doing it all on my Android phone and made two mistakes. So here we are almost one week later, back home and attempting to…

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