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
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
We appear to be having Summer this week! A few days of warm, actually very hot weather which is great, it always feels like age since we had that; it’s not! 🙂 … More The Patch at its best?
I grabbed a few shots of the Whitethroat and kept listening for the Cuckoo. … More Cuckoo to you
We went for a walk yesterday afternoon, down in the Den of Alyth … More Spooky stroll
When the first Great Spotted Woodpecker appeared outside in the tree, I got quite excited; they are now downgraded to oh, there’s the woodpecker … More Great Spotted Woodpecker