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  • Latest Feature , Wildlife & Nature

So many birds!

May 07, 2020
Thrushes, blackbirds and robins are in full song, and their babies are everywhere...
  • Wildlife & Nature

Fresh leaves in old woodlands

May 08, 2018
The woodlands are bursting into leaf, and spring flowers are everywhere. It's hard to stay indoors...
  • Wildlife & Nature

Ballachuan hazel wood

May 11, 2016
I've never walked through a woodland quite like this one: the ancient hazel wood of Ballachuan on the island …
  • Wildlife & Nature

Bluebell enchantment

April 16, 2015
As our woods start to shimmer with a heavenly blue haze, I'm looking at some of the folklore attached to …
  • British trees , Wildlife & Nature

The majesty of the beech

April 16, 2013
Beeches evoke the true beauty of the British landscape, with their majestic shape and vivid autumn colours.
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BRITISH TREES
  • Wild cherry: the last snow of spring
  • Sycamore: colonist or custodian?
  • The power of the elder
  • The enchantment of the rowan
SCOTTISH CASTLES
  • Rosslyn Castle – falling shadows
  • The Palace of Holyroodhouse
  • Drumlanrig Castle: unbridled splendour
  • Carnbane Castle and a banquet for a bard
MEGALITHIC
  • Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’
  • A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap
  • A walk to Rí Cruin Cairn
  • Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial
CHURCHES, CHAPELS & ABBEYS
  • The Govan Stones
  • Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary
  • Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan
  • Cambuskenneth Abbey
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