Regular contributor Polly Pullar has an exciting new book out on the pine martens of Ardnamurchan - and we've got five copies to give away! Mobile previewDesktop previewEdit snippet
For nature expert Jim Crumley, the remarkable sight of an osprey fishing never ceases to amaze. Read his fascinating account of one such encounter here...
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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