A rare vagrant, the Great White Egret, makes a brief ghost white appearance on Holy Island south of the border from Eyemouth. A poor photograph…but a great moment.
Category Archives: Nature
Only three cygnets remain. As large as the parent birds……. …..but yet to learn the art of making yourself look big.
The John Dory, or St Peter’s fish. So named because legend has it that St Peter plucked one from the Sea of Galilee, leaving a print of his thumb and forefinger behind the gills. The mark also acts as an evil eye to warn off predators. The John Dory swims upright, moving like a blade through the […]
The coast of East Berwickshire has many caves. Some are only accessible by sea. Others like this can be entered from the beach at low tide. Go through the gaping mouth to feel like Jonah in the belly of the whale. Treasure waits inside…for those who dare…..
Herring gulls, sociable scavengers, are unfazed by the closeness of the camera. This gull still has the tell-tale speckles on the neck and head of a young bird.
Stevie, the Jack Russell, came to Eyemouth for New Year. Sea smells and bird calls filled her dog brain. She walks with her nose and ears as much as her eyes and covers more ground than a long-distance runner.
‘Be thou my Guardian and my Guide And hear me when I call; Let not my slippery footsteps slide, And hold me lest I fall’ Isaac Williams News from the Nest has been quiet for some time but the swans have not been idle. Twice mentioned in the Berwickshire News, once for having been rescued […]
The chilling discovery of the commandment, “All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others” in George Orwell’s fable, Animal Farm, warns of the dystopia to come. But the portrait of porcine dictatorship in Orwell’s satire is a pig in a poke in reality. More intelligent than cats or dogs, pigs are thought to be highly sentient creatures with cognitive abilities […]
On a cold November afternoon, a still dark bird looks down on his watery kingdom. Could this be Graculus, royal bird of the land of Nog? Noggin the Nog was created once upon a time, in a land far away, Britain in the early 1960’s to be exact, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. Graculus, the large green bird which flew […]
Volcanic rocks around St Abb’s and Eyemouth give a feeling of a lunar landscape. They are the best-exposed remnants of late Caledonian igneous rocks south of the Southern Upland Fault. Small pools appear as mini lakes reflecting the jagged edges of these ancient rocks. Further north, at Siccar Point, James Hutton discovered his “Unconformity” and […]
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