I’m not sure that the seagull pictured deserves the title bestowed upon it, on the postcard here, but it brought a wry smile to my face when lingering around a seaside tourist shop (trap) earlier this year.
Blogging here should be more frequent now as my new house finally has a broadband connection. Yipee!
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Can you spot it?
Year on year, I’m seeing more and more otters when I’m afloat. Either I’m getting better looking for them or their numbers are increasing. I suspect it’s bit of both.
However the biggest threat to the continued growth in otter numbers is them being struck by vehicles whilst they cross roads, especially at […]
I read tonight in the Caithness Courier newspaper that a Fin Whale was washed up dead close to Stoer Point, near Lochinver earlier this week.
The fin whale is the second largest whale after the mighty Blue Whale and the adult female washed at Stoer was estimated to weigh in at 45 tonnes and measured 65 […]
Earlier in the year whilst paddling in the company of Wenley, around the Strathaird Peninsula of Skye from Elgol to Kilmarie to get some photos for the guidebook, we came across a young lamb marooned at the back of a small gully on the rocky coastline. Anxious not to leave it to it’s fate, […]
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