We live in Central Scotland, well, East central Scotland I guess? Is it important? I think that in relation to the sky we look at then, yes, to an extent. If you are looking at my photographs and thinking of Scotland, where we are in relation to Aurora Borealis in the far North, then it … More Star Trails and Aurora
The A-Z all goes a bit awry here, not many garden visitors under these letters so, I’ll aggregate, improvise, cluster? Jackdaw I think I mentioned before that we have a lot of Corvids around us and the Jackdaws are probably the most vocal and possibly the cheekiest? Jackdaws drop in several times a day, opportunists, … More Our Garden Visitors (J-M)
A day to remember In the words of the song “It was twenty years ago today” only in this case it was 50 years ago! Today / tomorrow. March 17th 1975 18, going on 13 yrs old and standing at the ferry terminal in Belfast, N. Ireland with my father, going off to join the … More Setting out in life
G! There are quite a few of these so, G has its own page! The first one on the RSPB alphabetical pages is the Goldfinch, possibly our brightest, most colourful garden bird and, a beautiful singer, if you ever hear them, you’ll know what I mean. We get quite a lot of them in the … More Our Garden Visitors (G)
The only bird that falls into this grouping is the Fieldfare which I would never normally call a garden bird but during Winter months, they can drop in on the lookout for extra food and they love Apples. We’ve had one or two drop in during early snows and they’re feisty! Our most recent one … More Our Garden Visitors (E-F)
I’m going to use these pages to list and ID by photograph the birds that we commonly get visiting the feeders or the garden in general, I may create another page for those less common appearances. I will try to use only shots from the garden but will label any that aren’t but used as … More Our Garden Visitors (C-D)
I’m going to use these pages to list and ID by photograph the birds that we commonly get visiting the feeders or the garden in general, I may create another page for those less common appearances. I will try to use only shots from the garden but will label any that aren’t but used as … More Our Garden Visitors (A-B)
March 7th/8th – my lovely lady and I had discovered an abandoned mansion house come school house not far away, actually, she discovered it via Tok Tik or some such internet thing. So, it being 6.5 miles away and the sun having decided to show itself, we headed up there for a look. There’s a kind of … More Something old, something new
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