Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
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Last Update: Friday, November 30, 2018 - 13:49
On Monday, feeling the need for an adventure, exercise and a night out " Kilchoan Old Guys Expedition Group", (average age 67.5 years) walked in to Peanmeanach bothy on the Ardnish Peninsula...
I am sitting at Janet's kitchen table in Holystone in the Coquet Valley, North Northumberland. We are working on a project submission to the Aviva Community Fund. The red squirrels in the...
On Thursday evenings a small group of elderly men meet in the bar of the, "The Kilchoan Hotel" for gossip, discussion of the latest outrage from Trump ....the undoing of enlightenment...
Owlet's first night flightLast week as he was driving home past the barn "Raptor" saw a young owl on the road in his car headlights it was the third owlet to be hatched.Barn owls are usually 12 - 13...
Press & Journal 22nd August 2018While I was away in France a photograph taken by a holiday maker appeared in the Press & Journal of a pine marten and a "wildcat" together. The pine...
I found a dead, male barn owl this morning, under the beam in the barn where they normally perch and roost. It was so light weight almost as it were only feathers. When I weighed it on my kitchen...
House sparrows There has been a steady decline in the population of UK house sparrows during the last 100 years, probably since the motorcar replaced horses on our streets. Changes in farming...
Fifty years ago I read a short account of a two person expedition into a remote and then inaccessible region of the Pyrenees, " the Enchanted Mountains" by Robin Fedden", then " The Pyrenees" by...
Owlets 3 - 4 weeks old Adult delivering foodTonight it will be dusk at around 8.30 pm. iy you wait quietly outside my barn you will see two adult owls swooping in with food for their young...
