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Apr 7th, 2015

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Active Pond

R and I spent some time looking at the spring residents on our pond the other day. Of course we have our heron (mentioned many times before) but also two ducks which I thought at one point were thinking about making a nest. The video shows some nice reflections as they come into land. Then […]

Apr 5th, 2015

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Lovely Easter

We had a great Easter at my parents’ with lovely weather. I made my Dad a birthday cake (a sort of Simnel cake decorated with real crystallized primroses from our garden here) and my Mum an Easter egg basket. The eggs were raw ones – I inserted the point of a sharp knife in the […]

Apr 2nd, 2015

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Pine Marten’s Den

We have a summerhouse in our garden which had started to look a bit sad. During one of the storms we have had this year the door blew open and cracked at the bottom, and the roof had leaked, leaving black patches on the ceiling. So I decided to give it a bit of TLC […]

Apr 1st, 2015

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Beware of the Bears…

I have a confession to make. I was in fact responsible for the April Fool ‘Beware of the Bears’ poster in Lochgoilhead. I probably have a warped sense of humour – but the idea that the beaver scheme (which I support wholeheartedly by the way) would suddenly expand into bears and that some poor tourist […]

Mar 29th, 2015

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Lovin’ it – maybe…

Some time ago my Mum bought me a super bird feeder tree. It has taken us a while to get it put up (my original location choice turned out to be impossible due to an impenetrable layer of concrete). But yesterday R managed to put it up next to the existing bird feeder. It looks […]

Mar 27th, 2015

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Lambs in the snow

The very cold weather continues with new snow on the hills nearly every day this week. It doesn’t stop nature though because yesterday I saw the first lamb of the season, and today R and I heard another one when we were walking through the woods (farm animals around here don’t have a lot of […]

Mar 25th, 2015

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Ship on the Horizon

Fantastic morning again though bitterly cold (our weather station said -2C at 6:30am). R and I had a departure from our usual walk and went out along the lochside towards the holiday camp. We could hear the calls of Whooper swans from the loch (although we couldn’t see them). They are presumably the same group […]

Mar 24th, 2015

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Sprinkling of Snow overnight

It had been supposed to snow overnight, but although according to our weather station it got down to 1C – we have had no snow at loch level; there is a sprinkling of snow on Beinn Bheula. This may be the last of the year if the dates from 2014 are anything to go by […]

Mar 23rd, 2015

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Hard work in the Garden

The garden has been looking a bit run down (certainly not up to the standard of the previous owners) as I was tremendously busy and didn’t have a lot of time for it towards the end of last year. So over the last few days I have been having a major clean up and am […]

Mar 20th, 2015

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Frog Orgy

I was walking down to the summerhouse this morning when I heard a familiar burbling sound coming from the pond. Down near the stream the water was surging about and sure enough the frogs had arrived and were (not to put too fine a point on it) “getting it on” – right at the point […]