Newtonmore Wildflowers

 I have been intrigued as to how UV (ultra-violet) fluorescence works, so have been doing some research on the internet to find out.  Before...

 As William Blake said, there is a wonderful world to be seen if you look closely at small things. I think this is part of my fascination wi...

 Last March I wrote about finding hazel catkins ( here ).  These yellow danglies are the male part, producing pollen, but the pollen grains ...

There are usually flocks of Greylag geese on the fields between Newtonmore Railway station and the Spey, and I often see them flying overhea...

With Christmas and New Year taking up the end of December, I have not  done a blog post for a while. But Happy New Year from me and this tre...

Winter definitely feels as if it has arrived with sub-zero temperatures and snow for the last week. It looks so beautiful that I can almost ...

 I decided to test out the theory in my last post, that the Witches Whiskers on Beard lichen (Usnea subfloridana) were more likely to occur ...