photographs: people, places & things
A surprise visit from a sparrowhawk In all the time we have lived where we do, we only recall a single previous visit from a sparrowhawk and that was actually earlier this year (see this post from the summer). So you can imagine that it was something of a surprise when my wife spotted a […]
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Autumn colours in black & white It’s hard to beat the autumn colours and a recent walk along a local canal and conservation area highlighted again just how stunning the colours can be. For this photo’ set I have presented almost all of the pictures in black and white – maybe not to everyones taste, […]
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Back to Scotland and making the most of November – part three This is the third and final post in the short picture post series following our recent trip to the east coast of Scotland. You can read previous parts by following these links to Part 1 and Part 2. The weather for most of […]
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Back to Scotland and making the most of November – part two Part two of the back to Scotland post features more images from our coastal walking (east coast in Berwickshire). If you missed Part One you can see it here – the weather and the walking were superb and our second day there saw […]
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Back to Scotland and making the most of November – part one We’re just back from another trip to Scotland. In September we had been up to see the Red Kites in the Galloway Forest and then onto the west coast for a short break in the Argyle area. This time we were on the […]
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Autumn wanderings along the water Family events and circumstances really have thrown our regular walking pattern into disarray, we will get back to old routines but the last few months have been pretty disrupted with one thing and another. Having said that we did manage to have quite a decent walk alongside the River Tame […]
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Red Kites edited pictures not original but … In an earlier blog post I said we had been to the Red Kite feeding station in Galloway Forest – you can see that post here. The supporting picture gallery had quite a lot of pictures of the magnificent red kites. The pictures in the gallery below […]
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Visiting Scotland – around Argyle and Loch Fyne Following on from my previous post which featured our visit to the Red Kite feeding station at Bellymack Farm in the Galloway Forest, we headed to Irvine for an overnight stay and then made our way to a pretty isolated and peaceful cottage at St Catherines on […]
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Red Kites feeding station at Bellymack Hill Farm – Scotland We were in Scotland last week and took a short break in a cottage close to Loch Fyne, the longest of the Scottish sea lochs. Our journey didn’t take us directly to our holiday location as we had decided to visit a Red Kite feeding […]
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August visit to Burton Mere Wetlands – RSPB Reserve This was our second visit to the RSPB wetlands site at Burton Mere, our previous visit there was a couple of months ago back in June. As I have written a few words in an earlier post about the site and following our June visit I […]
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