Galleries July 23, 2018
Puffin-spotting On Lunga
Lunga, in the Treshnish Isles, is one of the best places to see puffins in Scotland. Find out more here, and check out our gallery from a recent visit!
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Wildlife July 16, 2018
Puffins Are Living On The Edge
Nature’s endearing, dogged survivors are not faring so well in the face of the latest environmental threats Nothing about puffins is ordinary. Here is one coming in to land not […]
Culture July 11, 2018
Discover Sea Eagles In The East
Jim Crumley has an extraordinary encounter with a sea eagle in Fife A narrow hill road in North Fife, the car newly stowed on a verge by a drystane […]
Culture December 11, 2017
Jay Is For January
Our nature expert Jim Crumley encounters a jay, or, as the colourful bird is described in Gaelic, a “sgreuchag-choille” – screamer of the woods One of those half-dark-at-noon January […]
Culture April 13, 2016
A… Chaos of Swans?
When startled by a microlight or helicopter, geese and whooper swans have an unusual and dramatically different response… Sometimes the hardest part is getting into the passenger seat from […]
Culture March 30, 2016
Herons – Dressing Down
No prizes for herons in fashion or architecture… Herons, I once wrote, are flamingos dressed by Presbyterians. I like the image so much, here it is again. The writer’s conceit, revisiting […]
Culture March 2, 2016
Wildcat Versus Lynx
Save one from extinction or reintroduce the other? Jim Crumley asks which is easier Finally, I saw something lying at the foot of a tree, inert as gravestones, but […]
Culture January 20, 2016
Jim Crumley | A Day In The Life…
An insight into a typical day for nature writer Jim Crumley … I am walking the line between Highland and Lowland, a ridge to the south of the Trossachs’ mountain heart. […]
Culture December 25, 2015
The Missing Lynx
As the forests of Scotland revive, Jim Crumley reckons its about time a former resident deserves a billet I once sat and watched a pair of captive lynxes for half an […]
Culture October 14, 2015
Life At The Water’s Edge
The peaceful Tay estuary is in reality a very busy place that Jim Crumley never gets tired of visiting Kingoodie at low tide on a cold afternoon of stillness and sunlight is […]
