R was working today and I wasn’t, so I went up the Steeple on my own. Traditionally in Lochgoilhead there is a running race up this hill every September, but although I am pretty fit I don’t think I will be trying for this as it is extremely steep. The walk itself takes about 2 […]
Fantastic weather in Lochgoilhead today (though cold – there was ice on the summerhouse roof and people scraping their windscreens in the village this morning). I’m about to take off for a long walk to appreciate it but I thought this picture would give an idea of how nice it is. The view is out […]
I added two new cameras to our wildlife setup here on the Donich this week. One is a tiny thumbnail camera my Mum bought R (the idea was to attach it to one of the cats’ collars and get some photos of where they go, but it didn’t work well for this because there was […]
Some time ago I posted about an encounter between a badger and one of our cats. Basically the badger completely ignored the cat and continued eating his peanuts. Well this is obviously symptomatic of badgers’ general attitude to life as shown in this video, where the pine marten is disturbed whilst eating and runs off, […]
R laughs at me because I keep on saying ‘today is the loveliest day since we moved here’. Well today was definitely in the top ten. Early this morning the grass was white with frost and the daffodils were drooping with the cold, but by this afternoon it was about 18C in the sun and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
