Jenny, back on the nest, ready to produce this year’s clutch of eggs.
Category Archives: Wildlife
Just north of Eyemouth are the Lammemuir hills and the beautiful Whiteadder reservoir, favourite with many species of birds and would be sailors, honing their skills before venturing out on the more turbulent waters of the North Sea. Canada geese share the moors with grouse before the hunting season starts in earnest. It is a good place too to […]
The eyes of a heron at sunrise, panning the clear waters of the harbour mouth in the hope of an early catch.
A week ago the last cygnet reluctantly left the nest and Eyemouth, chased up the road by its parent. For several days Jock and Jenny could be seen patrolling the harbour on the lookout for homing adolescents. Now they return to the muddy bank at the mouth of the river Eye where nest building will begin again in the Spring.
It must be confusing to be a swan. Those parents that have nurtured you for nine months, taught you to swim, to fight, to fly….. now only have time for each other. Not only do they not have time for you…. but they want you to pack up and go. Fly the nest, leave the […]
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.
Only three cygnets remain. As large as the parent birds……. …..but yet to learn the art of making yourself look big.
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.
‘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 […]
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 […]
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