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Category: Wildlife

  • Serendipity

    Pictures below from Starbank Road, Newhaven at the start of the month.             You can see them as the triumph of the biological drive to blossom and so procreate, or pretty flowers growing in the rubbish.  The choice is yours.  Poppy petals seem to me to be about one micron…

  • Drones

    Last weekend while Paul was embarking on Project Gate Paint, I went to the end of our road (seriously) to capture some images of the wild flowers planted there by the Fife Parks & Rec people.   They were busy buzzing with bumble* bees and are such a lovely sight to behold.  We drove to Cellardyke…

  • Half term

    Solstice again, and it looks like being a very, very busy day. Last weekend we went to Vane Farm, not been for ages, and oh happy joy, the flowers are out in the bumblebee meadow and beyond.  Not only that, but in the furthest hide we saw male and female Little Ringed Plovers, nesting on…

  • Plenum

    At least that is how my head feels just now, very busy at work and the lighter mornings wake me up early which means more thoughts squeeze themselves in my conscious waking state.   They’re not worth writing down but I did realise that it was time to update BTW if only so that the most…

  • Thought for the Day

    Here’s a thing, and you might want to finish your breakfast first. I make it my business to visit and evaluate ladies’ loos the world over.  Current most interesting –  the ones in the St. Petersburg food market.  Tip topper most, our own, with calming colour scheme, decent selection of reading material,  digital radio*, Ecover…

  • Finchley Park

    They’re back !  Not a sign of them last year and previous excitement proved fruitless as the depletion of the Nyger seeds turned out to be directly attributable to the chaffinches. But – photographic evidence was obtained yesterday.  It’s from a dreadful angle since speed was of the essence.  Oh and if you have already…

  • Saturday serendipity

    For the first time in a week it is actually possible to see the horizon.    A dreich haar has enveloped the Kingdom of late, and frankly it has been depressing.             Turns out to be jolly difficult to photograph in low light, through a window, without a tripod.  Who knew?…

  • Weather to Fly*

    I haven’t put up any pictures, even  of birds, for at least a week.  So here goes then.  A shot from the American football match we attended recently, some crafty handiwork at Vane Farm  RSPB  Loch Leven and the old man of Benarty viewed through bat-vision.   From the coastal path yesterday, a lean mean carrion…

  • Gazing with ganders

    We had a very successful event last night for DB Astro (link at the side there) with a visit to the dark site afterwards.  I did not attend the latter, not feeling too chipper since so far this calendar year I have had two colds and one episode of acute back pain, but hey ho,…

  • Ticking and tocking

    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” ― Leonard Cohen Have to admit there is a lot of truth in that, many people seem to take lack of sleep as a badge of honour  and I have probably been guilty of that too.  The truth for me…