An occasional series of posts, mostly forming a lifelong, personal wildlife memoire. Sightings that are personally meaningful, or scientifically important or which simply have a fun story attached to their finding. One day it may merge with others into a collection in book form, but for now and the foreseeable future it’s some slightly longer-form writing about personal encounters with wildlife – animal or vegetable in nature. I hope you find it interesting, I believe it will at least be informative because I will be adding some “sciency” notes to the pictures and thoughts.
25 Years in Canada … 18 as Canadians
As of today we have been in Canada for a full quarter century - or almost exactly one third of our lives. Worthy of note - even if we did get over the honeymoon period many years [...]
A Shetland Ram and “Nae Vedgetabulls!”
A good 39 years ago we were in Shetland with light in the sky at mid-summer midnight, noisy Oystercatchers and a very territorial ram This is going back a few years, 39 in fact to June [...]
Red Birds
My first Canadian lifer was the Red Bird, the "Devil's Bird", the Northern Cardinal. Here is a short tale of our first encounter as the kettle boiled for morning tea. (Drawings and photographs are my own) [...]
A Bird and a River
This is the first of what will probably be a very occasional series of posts, mostly forming a lifelong, personal wildlife memoire. Sightings that are personally meaningful, or scientifically important or which simply have a fun story [...]