Wildlife
Life At The Water’s Edge
Jim Crumley never tires of visiting the Tay estuary to spot oystercatchers, redshanks, sea eagles and more...
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Wildlife
Fantastic Mr Fox – Jim Crumley
Jim Crumley has an extraordinary and particularly interesting encounter with a fox… “Midwinter and all dulled but the wind and the stars. The dead of the dark winter; stretching […]
Wildlife
Discover Sea Eagles In The East
Sea Eagles in Fife?! Jim Crumley still finds it hard to get his head around the idea, but after days of searching, he caught a tantalising glimpse of them.
Wildlife
Greylag Geese: Our Arctic Ambassadors
As the colours of Autumn develop in the woods and fields around us, Jim Crumley looks back at one of his most sacred memories of nature at this time of year… […]
Culture
Jay Is For January
Our nature expert Jim Crumley encounters a jay, or, as the colourful bird is described in Gaelic, a “sgreuchag-choille” – screamer of the woods One of those half-dark-at-noon January […]
Culture
Jim Crumley | A Day In The Life…
An insight into a typical day for nature writer Jim Crumley … I am walking the line between Highland and Lowland, a ridge to the south of the Trossachs’ mountain heart. […]
Culture
The Missing Lynx
As the forests of Scotland revive, Jim Crumley reckons its about time a former resident deserves a billet I once sat and watched a pair of captive lynxes for half an […]
Culture
Watching Woodland Carpenters
At last it is September, and I head for the woods. Every season has its moments in the woods, but September is when my least favourite of all the seasons’ variations […]
Culture
A Swift Encounter
The swifts came late. If you remember April 2012 at all you will remember it with a shudder. North-easterly winds, rain, sleet and snow, and spring hiding its head under […]
Culture
Seabird Symphony
The sounds of Shetland’s seabirds were music to the ears of Jim Crumley NATURE in a place like Shetland is symphonic. Or it’s jazz with a particularly Ellingtonian twist. Nature […]
