Dare I say it?
Has Spring finally sprung in this wee corner of Perthshire? … More Dare I say it?
Has Spring finally sprung in this wee corner of Perthshire? … More Dare I say it?
Remember these things when you were younger? I was searching, in my brain, for a title for this one and ….. I’ve been off here for a while now, not sure why, I seem to have been in a bit of a doldrum lately. I’m finding that everything, everywhere is becoming very watered down so … More Not a Pheasant Plucker!
As I approached the lane I started to hear a deep droning sound. I couldn’t quite work out the direction or even what it was, an aircraft taking off from Dundee? A tractor in the field over the hill? … More How low can you get?
Having edited and loaded up my shots of the Red Squirrel yesterday, this morning when I started Lightroom, I clicked on a folder named 2024! I clicked on a few empty folders below that until … I stumbled upon a selection of “heelan coo” shots. I now remember these were in the field across the … More More cute?
The first Red Squirrel shots of the year and I’m hoping for many more … More First of the year!
February 11th – My usual loop, along the top of the field, down to the wild cam site and up to the feeding post. I’m starting to realise I have a few stopping points on these walks, which vary depending on activity and the route I take. … More Birds on the Patch
Much as I love the word dreich, it just works, I am getting truly fed up of it, grey, dull, dank skies, often raining and not real rain but that misty wet stuff that clings when it lands. To my memory, the last sunny day we had was Jan 19th when i went up to the reservoir, the sun did try to get through a couple of days back but only for a few minutes, then gave up. Apparently the Jetstream is pointing right at us and a weather front is stuck over Scandinavia and we’ve had Easterly winds all this time ……. cold! … More Walking in Dreich
Stand by folks, this is an Aurora Borealis post, some may be fed up of seeing the many, many images shared all over (anti) social media recently but, it was a heck of a show! Not quite as impressive as May 2024 but probably a greater visibility across the entire UK, barring local weather conditions. … More The night the sky lit up
I always have my phone with me when I’m out walking, I record bird sightings on BirdTrack, I take photographs, sharing photos with family and sometimes, I use it to actually contact people!!!!! This is a record of phone pics on my recent walks. … More January around the patch
We’ve been invaded by green birds! Tell me, what can you see in this melee? garden visitors