September

Sorting sheep in the fank.

New leaves in September? A strong wind burnt August leaves to a crisp and six weeks later they re-emerged. 

Bottle fed lambs.

Mix of burnt and fresh leaves.

The last photograph of the polytunnel before another storm flattened it. 

Toechtamhor.

Looking towards Calgary from the headland. 

Wind burnt garden flowers. 

In the Black Park. 

The delights of mosses. 

Down by the Ensay Burn with Walter and Nyje. 

Pedicure for the tups. 

 

Photographs from July

We had some wonderful summer days.  I am posting this selection of photographs in October, on a still calm and dreich day, and these photographs remind me of summer, like a dream now. 

 

10th June 2020 #30DaysWild

We walked up to the Reudle schoolhouse gate this evening to pick up the Kubota Farmer had left there when they started the hill gather on Sunday.  It was a softly cloudy and sunny evening, with a slight breeze so no midges. 

It was lovely out there, not many people walk across this bit of hill apart from us.   We saw and heard Cuckoos and Curlews, Skylarks and Snipe drumming. 

I have never seen Bogbean flowering and so we detoured to the bog in between Larach Mhor and Glag Gugaraidh to look for them.  We are a bit early for them.  

Four spotted darter

Beaked sedge?

Bogbean leaves

The Harbro lorry, the Ensay bridge and the 'plague house'

Heath bedstraw 

A solitary Foxglove 

The last month