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Category: Wildlife

  • 29 April 2011

    We decided to celebrate the Royal Wedding by going up the road to Vane Farm.  From Findatie we walked round to the hide on the eastern shore of Loch Leven.  Met quite a few dogs and saw the usual suspects out on the water, mallard, teal, shoveller & tufties.  There were robin chicks on the…

  • Sad warning

    Went out to the garden today for the first time properly this year,  only to find a wee hedgehog, dead.  It seems to have become trapped in netting that holds up my sweet peas in the summer, and which I stupidly did not put away for winter.  I feel dreadful about this and can only…

  • Floody waters

    Today we went to Vane Farm again, there was much ado about a possible sighting of a sea eagle, maybe in the trees, maybe on the loch…  many twitchers had arrived and whether or not they saw what they expected, who knows?  We saw teal, curlew, oyster catcher, black headed gull, whooper swan, goldfinch and…

  • Kulchur

    Yesterday we saw A View From The Bridge at the Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh which was a very well produced and directed show.   I do like a play with unsympathetic characters.   We also finally watched Moon which was directed by Duncan Jones, which was excellent, sci fi as opposed to space opera, according to…

  • BGBW the follow up

    Well, I spent from 08:10 to 09:10 this morning, just about as soon as the sun was up, clutching a big mug of tea, watching. In the front garden I clocked a total of 5 birds, listed as follows: –  1 blue tit, 1 robin, 2 blackbirds (Mr & Mrs) and 1 sparrow.   Overhead, I…

  • BGBW, BTW

    Yes, Big Garden Bird Watch weekend is here once again, watch your garden birds for one hour this weekend (daylight is best) tally them up and submit your results here. RSPB Early morning or evening is when they will be most active in the search for food.  Mind you, the ones here have made such…

  • Groovin’…

    …on a Sunday afternoon.  Went to the beach today – what else would one do on a snowy Sunday in January?   We watched the sun set beyond the bridges, a wonderful honey gold over ice blue.  I paddled in the sea – courtesy of my George @ASDA wellies – and spotted a team of the…

  • Against the dying of the light

    I don’t know about you but at this time of year my thoughts can become a tad gloomy, morbid even.  I know I am not alone in this, whether it’s the missing faces at the family meals; the fact that disruption to routine inevitably finds me staring at a chunk of time with no allotted…

  • Scunnered

    …yes, just like everyone else.  That’s scunnered with the snow, in case anyone should be in any doubt.   Now we have the sunset, hidden behind dense drifts of rolling, freezing fog.   Snow fell steadily from at least 6:30 a.m. until after noon today, all the carefully cleared driveways have been filled in again.   So, hooray,…

  • November blues

    It is snowing heavily on this Sunday morning at 08:52.  I am feeling fairly despondent about that, for the simple reason that it makes travel so difficult.  We all know how long it lasted previously and I will have to focus to stay upbeat about life in general.   The front garden birds are hopping…