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Category: Wildlife

  • Charlie Parker, not Jack Jones

    So, busy with a job for work which has to be done but is very very   s   l  o  w. I would much rather be outside but a brief stolen glance out of the window revealed the following:- Blackbird Coal Tit Chaffinch Magpie Oystercatcher Wood pigeon House Sparrow Blue tit Robin Carrion crow Rook…

  • Abu Dhabi

    Here are some pictures from yesterday in Aberdour, on the Silver Sands beach.  Winter just about upon us.  

  • A Murmuration

    Does anyone know the location of a starling murmuration?  At dusk they swoop and dance in great clouds and I would love to see that.  I suppose there must be websites which give the lowdown on this and there is a big starling group at the recycling centre in the Bay, which might be a…

  • Too excited to think up a title

    Don’t all flock at once, I have just heard that BBC Autumnwatch has been filming at RSPB Loch Leven (aka Vane Farm) and will broadcast the section next week.  Great stuff, but don’t make it too famous, we still want to be able to grab that window seat in the café at least twice a…

  • Warm cockles

    To Berwick yesterday, not for the reason stated on the tin but nevertheless lovely to see Johnny & Yvonne.  After a splendid repast and blethers, we wobbled out onto the town walls and walked right round, for the first time I can remember.    It was most interesting to see the bastions and lovely views for…

  • (Im)précis

    Triple busy of late, it’s always like that in the run up to a holiday, or maybe it isn’t, we just perceive the contrast more keenly. Yesterday we went to Callum’s second birthday party, and such was the excitement that I didn’t manage to catch any really good pictures of him.   There was lots of…

  • Downtime

    Paul & I recently managed to synch our calendars so that we had a long weekend together.  First stop was Perth, where we were introduced to Miss Alexandra Carmichael by proud mum Annelie.  Dad Craig was not too well, hopefully better now and we’ll see him next time.   Alan Alpenfelt was also there; thanks…

  • the ravel’d sleeve of care

    Is anyone else finding it really difficult to sleep just now?  And when I do, I have lollapalooza dreams.   But how lovely to wake to a sunny day for once, with a gentle breeze.  Admittedly this was at 04:18 but it is still fine now at 10:00 exactly. A moment’s silence for the dead blue…

  • The b(e)at goes on

    As indeed does the rain.   Luckily it held off last weekend when we attended Ciara’s first communion and confirmation, and allowed us a very brief but interesting picnic in the Kirkgate park, Kinross.   There was an exhibition there hosted by various local wildlife and history interst groups and if we’d known there  was going…

  • A pageant, of birds too.

    When I tried to upload pictures from our weekend in Beadnell I failed spectacularly, so here I am, having another shot at it.  Whilst I do this HM the Queen is doing a stalwart job standing up for over three hours on the trot, in the rain, watching the Jubilee pageant on the River Thames. …