Cowpat gardening

Walking through the field the cows were in about 2 weeks ago.  This lush ring of flora hides a cow pat. Talk about natural fertiliser!

A pale lilac Self heal.

A delight to see a Six spot burnet moth on a Fragrant orchid.

A tidal stack.

Looking back to the boathouse.

Everywhere we looked there were orchids. I think these are Common spotted..

Whatever they are, they are common here.

It is bliss being out there at sunset.

Back in May we found a minute flower which no one seemed to definitely ID. Farmer thought it was Wild Angelica.  It had been growing on the cliffs of the Point, only 2 inches tall.  This was a bit taller than that, but very similar.  We saw several of this size down there, as well as tall ones.

Eyebright picking up the light.

Harebell shaking in the sunset on the Black park turf dyke.

Around the headland today.

Checking the sheep today. Hard to think it was the last day in September.  It was certainly bliss out there, and we saw no one.

We did see Red Deer stags, hinds and calves,  Red Admiral butterfly, solitary molehill quite high up on Beinn Duill, pair of Grouse, single Grouse sometime later, the Coll ferry, a raven, and a wheatear still here. Also areas where the bracken had been sprayed last year revealing ruins we have never seen before, including the site of an illicit still. 

Spanner in the works.

It has been one of those days.  

This morning, Farmer needed to level the wood-chip as we are trying to use every last bit before we get another load, so that we can do some maintenence to the store.  In the process he discovered that parts of the floor are rotting through, because the flooring used does not seem to have been made using marine ply.. so the moisture in the chip has slowly been dampening and rotting the floor.  Replacing it will be a big job.

The orange flowers in the right hand corner of this photograph are the Bog Asphodel seed heads.

Then Farmer went off to cut some more bracken and the gear box on the mower went.  He came back to the farm and the final straw..

 ...was breaking his spanner doing this.  What was there left for the poor man to do?  He came for a walk with me to Haunn.

 It has been very windy today, so not very good for capturing flowers.