Gathering in the harvest
The crop in the field behind the house was ready to be harvested and once gathered in, the remains baled up for storage/ … More Gathering in the harvest
The crop in the field behind the house was ready to be harvested and once gathered in, the remains baled up for storage/ … More Gathering in the harvest
As some of you know, I have a feeding post up by an old Oak tree on our lane and I was up there on March 14th this year, standing right by the post after dropping some food on it, when I looked down and a Pheasant was sneaking towards me. … More Meet a Pheasant!
I took part in the Big Butterfly Count this year on Monday 21st and will probably do a few more counts as the week progresses, I’d hoped to get out over the weekend but it was pretty miserable out there for most of it and Monday was ……… drier I guess is the best description. … More Big Butterfly Count 2025
Time to take a drive North and visit mum. … More Ardersier in June
The weather forecast isn’t great for this weekend, not complaining, it’s been scorching for several days and we really need some decent rain fall. I came through to the “den” to edit my overnight time-lapse shots and create a video clip of them if suitable, they were but, meanwhile I am keeping an eye on … More On a rainy Saturday morning
I woke up for a nature call around 01:15 and felt the need to check outside. I opened the curtains where the camera was, gazed groggily at the sky then shuffled back to bed where I promptly got alert-head! … More Noctilucent display
I went down for a good breakfast before deciding what we would do for the day. We’d wanted to walk around Loch Thom for quite some time, we did it many years ago so, we headed for the Greenock Cut Visitor Centre as our start point. … More A Weekend Away Pt. 2
The Ericht is the river that flows through the Scottish town of Blairgowrie. There’s a park and car park that we use when we visit the town, there’s a walk that follows the river upstream a mile or two and there can be some great birds on it as well as the possibility of an Otter sighting. (One in three years!) … More Up the Ericht
Today is a “car’s in the garage” days. New tyres needed so, dropped off at 08:00 and wandered off, warm top, waterproof jacket and camera ready. It was pouring when I left the house, it had stopped by the time I started walking. Up the Ericht, see what I might see. I’ve seen Kingfishers whizzing … More Waiting day
I was simply working on a series from a walk on the patch on June 1st when I came across this set of shots. … More A Rose is just a Rose?