Winter Solstice Canoe
It was just before the winter solstice. The day had flung its arms wide for the short hours of light, throwing glitter […]
Tag: birds
Learning the Land
How nature has colonised my notebooks as I’ve learnt more about the landscape and wildlife of the Cairngorms. A journey into observation.
Winter Canoe
It was one of those lost days between Christmas and New Year when we should have been travelling home from family in […]
Loch Insh Osprey
The ospreys have gone. I went away for a week and when I got back, the strath had slipped into autumn and the eyrie above Loch Insh was empty.
Return to Fishtail Mountain
My head is still in the Himalayas. Two weeks ago, I shared about my childhood in Ghachok, a village in the mountains […]
Poetry in Practice
One of my great hopes for this year as Writer in Residence at the Cairngorms National Park was to dedicate more time […]
The Long Flight Home
Of all the bird books and field guides lying around my house, the one that is most precious is not an heirloom, […]