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  1. Posting some photos from last year

    From Rùm to Eigg - View accoss from Rùm towards Eigg in the Small Isles in Scotland

    #photography #scotland #highlandsAndIslands #smallIsles

  2. The local heron population seems largely unperturbed by the increase in visitor numbers, tourists, traffic etc. recently and can often be spotted around, and flying over, the town.

    This one, from the bridge on the accurately named "Bridge Road" was being a bit more elusive... for such a large bird

    #Herons #Portree #IsleofSkye #highlandsandislands

  3. A heavy flurry of snow in the small hours has closed the schools and returned the village to white after a few days of thaw.

    The trees in town look like coral at first glance (to me at least..🙂), but a crow perched at the very top surveying the scene gives the game away.

    #Snow #Sneachd #Scotland #WintryWeather #IsleofSkye #HighlandsandIslands #PortRigh

  4. A heavy flurry of snow in the small hours has closed the schools and returned the village to white after a few days of thaw.

    The trees in town look like coral at first glance (to me at least..🙂), but a crow perched at the very top surveying the scene gives the game away.

    #Snow #Sneachd #Scotland #WintryWeather #IsleofSkye #HighlandsandIslands #PortRigh

  5. A heavy flurry of snow in the small hours has closed the schools and returned the village to white after a few days of thaw.

    The trees in town look like coral at first glance (to me at least..🙂), but a crow perched at the very top surveying the scene gives the game away.

    #Snow #Sneachd #Scotland #WintryWeather #IsleofSkye #HighlandsandIslands #PortRigh

  6. A heavy flurry of snow in the small hours has closed the schools and returned the village to white after a few days of thaw.

    The trees in town look like coral at first glance (to me at least..🙂), but a crow perched at the very top surveying the scene gives the game away.

    #Snow #Sneachd #Scotland #WintryWeather #IsleofSkye #HighlandsandIslands #PortRigh

  7. A heavy flurry of snow in the small hours has closed the schools and returned the village to white after a few days of thaw.

    The trees in town look like coral at first glance (to me at least..🙂), but a crow perched at the very top surveying the scene gives the game away.

    #Snow #Sneachd #Scotland #WintryWeather #IsleofSkye #HighlandsandIslands #PortRigh

  8. Another picture (perhaps the last for now...) of the snow-covered Ben Tianavaig, towering over #Portree bay.

    What I like about this is the contrasting bolt of orange from the #RNLI lifeboat out on the sea

    #IsleofSkye #Scotland #HighlandsAndIslands #ScottishLandscaoes #Blue #snow #seascapephotography #reflections

  9. The sudden and heavy snowfall this evening turned the village almost monochrome. The traffic signals and the bark of the tree the only suggestion there was still colour in the world 🙂

    No editing here at all, just what the camera "saw" as it tried to make sense of the sense of the world ❄️

    #Portree #Snowfall #Scotland #HighlandsandIslands #monochrome #Wellsortof #A87

  10. An amazing sight today as an eagle landed on a tree near the forest track just ahead of us and was harassed by the local corvid population. It stood its ground (well, branch).

    As usual, dog lead in one hand, phone in the other so, you know....not the best photo... You'll have to use your imagination to fill in the rest 😄

    ...Whenever I remember to take the camera and telephoto lens I see nothing like this 🤷‍♂️🙂

    #IsleofSkye #Scotland #HighlandsandIslands #ScottishNature #PhonePhotography

  11. Further along the A87, heading East through Glen Shiel, is the memorial cairn for Roderick MacKenzie.

    His story is here. A macabre tale that involves a dismembered head being toured around the country... in error.

    #ScottishHistory #highlandsandislands
    #18thcenturyhistory #A87 #RoderickMacKenzie #BonniePrinceCharlie

  12. CW: #SNP #Greenwash #freeports

    @ruskell Mark, where are our @ScottishGreens MSP’s for #MS&F and #HighlandsAndIslands calling out this #SNP nonsense. Not to mention our #Green #Ministers in #ScotGov making this a #RedLine issue to stop 🛑 this betrayal. Are they complicit or naive in buying into the #greenwash #ForthPorts #PortOfCromarty
    ⬆️ @EuropeanPowell

  13. @seth Ooh. Oh my word, they were awesome weren’t they? Totally understand that being a better fit! I got lucky while I was down there and happened to bump into a marine biologist and palaeontologist on the beach! Got a decent tour 😂

    Being able to press your hand into fossilised dinosaur footprints is something else, isn’t it? 👌🏻

  14. @seth Ooh. Oh my word, they were awesome weren’t they? Totally understand that being a better fit! I got lucky while I was down there and happened to bump into a marine biologist and palaeontologist on the beach! Got a decent tour 😂

    Being able to press your hand into fossilised dinosaur footprints is something else, isn’t it? 👌🏻

    #Staffin #Skye #DinosaurFootprints #Hebrides #Scotland #HighlandsAndIslands

  15. @seth Ooh. Oh my word, they were awesome weren’t they? Totally understand that being a better fit! I got lucky while I was down there and happened to bump into a marine biologist and palaeontologist on the beach! Got a decent tour 😂

    Being able to press your hand into fossilised dinosaur footprints is something else, isn’t it? 👌🏻

    #Staffin #Skye #DinosaurFootprints #Hebrides #Scotland #HighlandsAndIslands

  16. @seth Ooh. Oh my word, they were awesome weren’t they? Totally understand that being a better fit! I got lucky while I was down there and happened to bump into a marine biologist and palaeontologist on the beach! Got a decent tour 😂

    Being able to press your hand into fossilised dinosaur footprints is something else, isn’t it? 👌🏻

    #Staffin #Skye #DinosaurFootprints #Hebrides #Scotland #HighlandsAndIslands

  17. @seth Ooh. Oh my word, they were awesome weren’t they? Totally understand that being a better fit! I got lucky while I was down there and happened to bump into a marine biologist and palaeontologist on the beach! Got a decent tour 😂

    Being able to press your hand into fossilised dinosaur footprints is something else, isn’t it? 👌🏻

    #Staffin #Skye #DinosaurFootprints #Hebrides #Scotland #HighlandsAndIslands

  18. #Introduction (again, post-migration). I'm a retired #Environment / #RuralDevelopment person living in the inner #MorayFirth of the #HighlandsAndIslands #Scotland , mostly, and quite a lot of time in the #Minervois #France. My weakness has been the joy of writing #Fiction instead of policy papers, though it involves too much sitting down so now I go out on often fruitless #Photography expeditions. They're always great.