Yesterday was a real 'pet day', as they are sometimes known here. I woke to a covering of settled

sleet on the velux windows, and then the sun came out interspersed with more sleet showers at first.

It just got better and warmer until I was seriously tempted to have lunc...

After a very wet and windy night, there are moments of calm and a break in the rain. I'm looking out from the kitchen window at about eighteen greylag geese feeding - and swimming - in the meadow, a couple of oyster catchers and a curlew. 

The molehills seem to be incre...

Herons stretching their wings and sunbathing on the rocks, and an oyster catcher's bill shining brightly as it pokes around amongst the rocks. The loch is really calm - such a change from yesterday's spray and spindrift - and the snow has almost gone from the hills. Lo...

Here we are at the beginning of June and no meaningful blog – again.  I must be the original reluctant blogger, but somehow life seems to be for living rather than writing about....

There have been lots of interesting wildlife things happening over the last few weeks, a...

We're enjoying long hot days up here at Roshven,  It doesn't really get properly dark at this time of year so I have been watching bats hunting for their supper at midnight and stags grazing just outside the window and enjoying the sunshine at 5am.

There are often sign...

Sad news today from Colin the Post - three young badgers were killed last night by a passing vehicle just by the burn.

The wild hyacinths are over and the bracken has grown.  There is a lovely yellow haze from the buttercups in the front meadow and the wild irises have been lovely although they have been fairly transient with some warmer days recently.

A guest here at the weekend liste...