Youngmans Fancy

My Granddaughter Katy 5 Months

2011-03-08T18:36:00.000Z

Spring Bulbs

2011-03-08T18:31:00.000Z

2011-03-08T18:27:00.000Z

Florida 2011

2011-03-08T18:21:00.000Z

Some Florida Birds

2011-03-08T18:16:00.000Z

Skimmers Terns Gulls & a small Wader

Witch hazel

2011-03-05T18:46:00.001Z

Assorted LadyBirds

2010-12-06T18:45:00.000Z

Plants of the Machair

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Hapiness is all at sea

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Outer Hebrides

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Plants of the Machair

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Sea Eagles

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Plants of the Machair

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Plants of the Machair

2010-07-06T19:15:00.001Z

Quiraing

2010-07-06T19:11:00.000Z

Portree

2010-07-06T19:07:00.000Z

Outer Hebrides

2010-07-06T18:50:00.000Z

Outer Hebrides

2010-07-06T18:20:00.000Z

Outer Hebrides

2010-07-06T17:55:00.001Z

Tobago

2010-06-02T10:00:00.002Z

Red Admiral and Dragonfly

2009-11-06T13:26:00.002Z

Just a few Insect pictures I managed to Capture with a small Sony Camera

The Whaup

2008-03-13T18:16:00.002Z

After posting an extract from Thomas Grierson Gracies 'The Grey Glen' and searching for some years I have eventually managed to source a copy of the full poem which was actually written by
Rob ( Wanlock ) Reid

The Whaup

Fu'sweet is the lilt o' the Laverock
Frae the rim o' the clud at morn
The Merle pipes weel in the mid-day biel
In the heart o' the bendin thorn
The blythe bauld sang o' the mavis
Rings clear in the gloaming shaw
but the Whaups wild cry in the gurly sky
O' the moorlan' dings them a'

For whats in the lilt o' the Laverock
Tae touch ocht mair than the ear
The merle's lown craik in the tangled brake
Can start nae memories dear
and even the sang o' the Mavis
But waukens a love dream tame
Tae the whaups wild cry on the breeze blawn by
like a wanderin' word frae hame

The thochts o' the lang gray moorlan
Start up when I here that cry
The times we lay on the heathery brae
At the well, lang syne gane dry
and aye as we spak o' the ferlies
That happen'd afore-time there
The whaup's lane cry on the win' cam' by
Like a wild thing tint in the air

And thought I ha'e seen mair ferlies
Than grew in the fancy then
And the gowden gleam o' the boyish dream
Has slipp'd frae my soberer brain
Yet-even yet - if I wander
Alane by the moorlan' hill
That queer wild cry frae the gurly sky
Can tirl my heart strings still.
Than grew in the fancy

The Bucket List

2008-01-26T11:48:00.001Z

If you havn't seen it yet do!!

This is the latest Film from Jack Nicolson and Morgan Freeman

They play 2 Cancer patients sharing a room and they create a list of things they want to do before they kick the Bucket. visit the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Everest and the Great Wall of China, Sky dive, Race a Shelby Mustang etc etc. Hiariously Funny in bits and Sad in others, Its not the Greatest Film ever made but highly entertaining and thought provoking. So no doubt loads of us on seeing this Film will make our own Bucket Lists.

So here goes:-

Finish Climbing the Munro's

Drive overland to Cape town

Climb Kilamanjaro

See a Cheetah Hunting

Visit Torres del Paine

Visit Machu Picchu

See Andean Condors in the wild

Visit The Galapagos Islands

See a Polar Bear in the Wild

See Gyr Falcon in the Wild

and most important of all see just one more Spring.

Bird Photo of the Year

2008-01-10T19:48:00.000Z

OK OK I got it wrong my selected photo from Richard Bedford didn't win but it was runner up. Still credit where credit is due Peter Simpsons unusual Stone Curlew in threat display is an Impressive Winner. But I can't get away from Richard Bedfords Terns in Flight its Stunning and I am sure the much more technically difficult to Photograph.

Get that feel good factor with Oxfam Unwrapped

2007-12-27T09:18:00.000Z

So far this year we have had 2 fantastic Unwrapped Gifts from Oxfam. I purchase one for my wifes Birthday, a Goat and now for Xmas we have been given another for harvesting rain water What fantastic gifts for us and also for the actual recipients.