Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
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Last Update: Saturday, May 21, 2022 - 23:11
Five years ago I planted a shelter belt of mainly broadleaves on the western boundary of the croft and have kept the grass under control with a mix of Roundup and strimming but I don't like...
Two weeks ago the French equivalent of "The Guardian", "Le Monde", published a lucid, well argued and well written article outlining the case for banning hunting in France ( I read "Le Monde"...
My first close encounter with an Ardnamurchan otter was twelve years ago in my workshop. I was using and angle grinder and listening to Radio 2 when a young otter appeared at the door, I...
On Wednesday it was first light at about 6.00 am when we parked the truck, set off into the woods and the wind looking for roe deer. My guide Tony had been out scouting the area the previous...
It's the open season for hunting Roe bucks , it starts on April Fools day and ends on 31st October Halloween. So tomorrow morning out in the woods along the loch there'll be a stalker hoping to...
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 ...
