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Jan 26th, 2015

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Wildlife back in force

I’ve been a bit concerned over the last few weeks that we haven’t been seeing so much wildlife around… During the cold spell we haven’t been seeing any of the nocturnal visitors we had this time last year. But over the last couple of days as the snow has melted and things have warmed up, […]

Jan 24th, 2015

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RSPB Birdwatch

I just contributed to the RSPB Birdwatch project. Unlike last year the website seemed to withstand the strain of all the contributors and did not go down in the middle of the survey (or at least not while I was filling the survey in). We do seem to have less birds than last year here […]

Jan 21st, 2015

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Cows in the snow

I thought this was quite a touching image of the local bull and his harem. He is very gentle and will let you walk right past you without any reaction. I sometimes feel a bit sorry for the Highland Cows being out in all weathers. They are obviously well designed for the conditions however – […]

Jan 13th, 2015

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Snow Scape

It has been snowing off and on all day today. The hills look quite spectacular but it has been exceedingly cold. This afternoon I walked over to the shop at the holiday camp and got some good photos, including one of a species of duck I haven’t seen before. We also saw a sheep in […]

Jan 12th, 2015

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Be prepared….

In common with a lot of other people in the Highlands we lost power overnight on Friday. In our case we were lucky enough to get it back by 7pm, though many other people were out for three whole days. During this outage we really discovered how woefully unprepared we actually were. We didn’t have […]

Jan 11th, 2015

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Credit where credit is due

BT take a lot of flak about lack of response to logged issues… I have to say that they entirely exceeded expectations with regard to our most recent outage. Overnight on Thursday the huge storm toppled a tree into the Donich and completely snapped the telephone cable. We logged the fault with our ISP (Andrews […]

Jan 7th, 2015

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Dark Wings

When R and I first moved to Lochgoilhead, we were seriously impressed by the number of shells, particularly mussel shells, along the shore front road through the village. We almost though it could be otters (having seen some great videos of otters playing on Victoria Pier in the centre of Lerwick at night). However we […]

Jan 5th, 2015

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More hungry birds

To illustrate my point of the other day – the video is of the birds emptying the large feeder in just over an hour…. As you can see it is large down to the four large (well fat actually) jays. The little birds are also polishing over their seed at the same time…

Jan 3rd, 2015

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Hungry Birds

After the foul weather yesterday it was beautiful again today and we walked out to the end of the Loch. Before we went out I filled the large bird feeder with nuts and also put out about 500g on the ground. By the time we came back (about an hour and a half later), the […]