Really great to see Nina Eydelman of Animal Protection of New Mexico standing up to ranchers:
“Wolves belong in the #wild and each individual wolf is essential to the species’ survival. Ranchers who choose to place their domestic cattle on our #PublicLands should have to accept the conditions that come with those public lands, including the presence of healthy populations of native #carnivores. #Wolves were there first.”
You know it's spring when you start to see the bright yellow fields of rapeseed all over the countryside.
Rapeseed varieties are some of the oldest plants cultivated by humanity for it's oil, with documentation of its use in India 4,000 years ago and use in China and Japan 2,000 years ago.
Our beautiful capital city, Edinburgh.
Nearly froze up on Carlton Hill to get this fabulous sunset lighting up part of the great castle.
The hill just seems to catch the wind and it's usually from the north 🥶
Up near Plockton, passing Loch Carron I spotted the hillside opposite glowing as the warm light of the evening sun cut through a gap in the clouds.
I quickly dashed down a field to get a few shots, of which this was the best one.
The sunset never did light up the sky as I'd hoped, it just fizzled out, but at least I had a few shots in the bag 🙂
Spring bunnies are a delight, so cute and so many of them this year, great to see their numbers going up at least.
Did you know there are estimated to be fewer than 700,000 wild rabbits left in Scotland due to the recent RHDV outbreak 🙁🐇
A pair of beautiful Jays suddenly appeared in the garden last week, I've never seen one before and I'm pretty sure they're not too common this far north.
Fabulous colours and an interesting head feather patterning they have.
So pleased I managed to spot one and had time to grab the camera 🙂
Tantallon Castle was built in the mid 14th century by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. It was besieged by King James IV in 1491, and again by his successor James V in 1527 when extensive damage was done and again during Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Scotland in 1651. It has reminded a ruin ever since.
The Were Rabbit
This unique vampire bunny carving is perched above Collingwood House, near St Nicholas’ Cathedral on Amen Corner, Newcastle.
With its bulging eyes, huge fangs and claws, it’s not a pretty sight but we still don't know why it was commissioned or why placed on that building overlooking the Cathedral...
Somebody having a laugh all those years ago 😄
The sun going down over our local 'Witches Hill', where in the late 1600"s several witches were burned at the stake for putting spells on people, crops, weather, animals, anything really.
Sad and scary times to be an old lady in the village back then, with a god fearing judiciary and stupid superstitions ran out of control to point blame for anything that went wrong in their lives.
The valleys and wee glens on the approach to Glen Coe have always been my favourite, without hiking for miles you can get that wonderful 'at one' feeling with nature, so powerful, peaceful and beautiful.
The sun finally attempts to show it's face on another rainy day up in the mountains, east of Glencoe.
As the rain makes its way down the mountains it forms waterfalls and rivers as I watched.