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: Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 09:40
Red deer stagJust before the first Covid19 lockdown in March last year I posted a blog about Scotland having too many deer after a doubling of our deer population in the last 60 years Too many...
This post is a letter to my cousin Ian in California (and my American friends ), we contact each other about once a month on family and other matters. It's to assure him that Americans aren't alone ,...
If like me you feel you are getting too old and slow for "Munro bagging", the obsessive pursuit of walking all of Scotland's 282 mountains over 914.4m (3,000 ft) there is an attractive...
Lynx kittenFifty years ago on a hot, still, blackfly and mosquito infested afternoon in northern Quebec I came across two lynx kittens sleeping in the sun on a big flat rock beside the...
Last week the "Daily Mail" broke the story that our Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfefell Johnson was hiding from the chaos his lack of competent governance has created in a cottage ...
One of the unexpected side effects of Covid19 lockdown here on the peninsula is that many of us have learned to use video conferencing. So, next week we have a ZOOM meeting with Kate...
For the last four years I have been trying to work out how and why Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and why Boris A. P. Johnson persuaded more than half of voters that we...
On Saturday Tobermory was still and quiet; we were still keeping our distance there were no visitors, no cruise ships, I had the ferry, "Loch Tarbert" to myself again and the inshore fishing boats...
First find a mouseHens (chickens in the USA) are highly intelligent, they can negotiate complex mazes in return for rewards, they learn quickly, for example they expect me to be out there in the late...
Wild goats where they should be... not in townIt's quiet out there with very few people about and wild animals are moving into urban spaces.Today's "Guardian" newspaper has a photo of a gang of...
