Peter Cairns: has had plenty opf his images used on this blog in a guest blog, in other people’s press releases, in news about SCOTLAND: the Big Picture but also this image of a damaged landscape which I have used many, many times. Thank you Peter. Oscar Dewhurst: Oscar Dewhurst was 18 when he started…
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Guy Shorrock – Antipodean Albatross
Guy writes: as a young boy interested in birds, albatrosses, being birds mainly of the southern hemisphere, always had something of a mystical status to me. From school, I remember an English Literature lesson covering the ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Coleridge. This lengthy poem revolves around the killing of an albatross…
Guy Shorrock – Golden Eagle
Guy writes: Golden eagle – it doesn’t really get much better does it! Probably one of the most well-known birds to the man on the street – symbolic of beauty, power, speed & wilderness. I saw my first eagles when I was about 11 years old on a holiday with my father to Scotland. A…
Guy Shorrock – Musk Ox
A seemingly peaceful scene of musk ox in the mountains of Dovre National Park, Norway, though an animal that commands respect and a safe distance. They were introduced from Greenland to Norway within the last 100 years and I’ve seen these huge shaggy beasts on several occasion. However, this is not about musk ox, but…
Guy Shorrock – Chimpanzee
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Guy writes: a couple of weeks ago Mark posted an image of a Mountain Gorilla I had taken during a recent trip to Uganda. In the current lockdown, such things now seem particularly distant. On the same trip I was lucky enough to see chimpanzees on three occasions. Twice on organised trips with habituated troops,…
Guy Shorrock – Mountain Gorilla
The recent and escalating coronavirus crisis is making people within society acutely aware of their own mortality, along with that of family, friends and loved ones. Aside from some negative aspects reported in the media, the way most of society has responded to help and support each other in the face of this existential threat…
Guy Shorrock – Red Knot
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Guy writes: I recently went with friends to the hide tide roost at the RSPB Snettisham reserve. It has been many years since I had last been to see this spectacle, not such a high tide on that occasion, and found the whole experience quite mesmerising. The incoming North Sea had pushed tens of thousands…
Guy Shorrock – Capercaillie
Guy writes: The Capercaillie – still not out of the woods Capercaillies, the world’s largest grouse, are impressive birds. Their name derives from the Scottish Gaelic ‘capull coille’ meaning horse of the woods. I’ve only seen them a few times in Scotland, but had great views in Sweden on several occasions. I’ve also been fortunate…
Guy Shorrock – Green-breasted Mango
Guy writes: Recent events have again brought into sharp focus the impact of humans on the planet. The recent People’s Walk for Wildlife and Chris Packham’s thought provoking ‘A People’s Manifesto for Wildlife’ was followed by the WWF ‘Living Planet’ report outlining that humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970. Now comes…
Guy Shorrock – Common Crane
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Cranes on the up Guy writes: I still vividly remember in the mid 1980s seeing my very first common crane during a birding trip with friends to Norfolk. Cranes had been lost as a UK breeding bird around 400 years ago as a result of hunting for food and the subsequent draining of their…