After doing 500+ blog posts by last December I ran out of steam or maybe it was, " blogger's block" but now things have moved ...

 Five years ago I planted a shelter belt of mainly broadleaves on the western boundary of the croft and have kept the grass under control wi...

  Two weeks ago the French equivalent of "The Guardian", "Le Monde", published a lucid, well argued and well written art...

My first close encounter with an Ardnamurchan otter was twelve years ago in my workshop. I was using an angle grinder and listening to Radio...

 On Wednesday it was first light at about 6.00 am when we parked the truck, set off into the woods and the wind looking for roe deer. My gui...

It's the open season for hunting Roe bucks , it starts on April Fools day and ends on 31st October  Halloween. So tomorrow morning out i...

Red deer stag Just before the first Covid19 lockdown in March last year  I posted a blog about Scotland having too many deer after a doublin...