Black Loch car park
Some photos taken around the car park at the Black Loch, near Caldercruix, ahead of our angling club outing on the evening of 21 July 2018.
Cannibal mouse & Brown Rat
We came across two mice that had got trapped inside a coolbox. whether one died and the other took advantage to stay alive by eating it, or the one that was alive survived by killing and eating the other, we will never know. The strangest thing was that while we were examinging the scene and…
Cramond 22 May 2018/09 July 2021
Spring and summer flowers along the River Almond walkway.
Otters
A family of three otters, mucking about in open water on Loch Lochy.
Magpies nest-building, 21 March 2018/March 2026
A pair of magpies have been busy, buliding their nest in the top of a tall shrub in the back-garden. The shrub is all upright stems, and magpie beaks naturally hold sticks horizontally! They insist on using sticks 2-3 feet long, and then struggle to get them in past the uprights. It’s a shaded spot…
Butterfly Farm
Some shots, taken in February (major steam on lens warning!!!) at the Butterfly Farm at Dobbies’ garden centre, at Melville.