Images of May 2014

                                    

The polytunnel arrived !! and the hoops are up !!

Jock (on the right),aided by his collie Meg and Malcolm , put up the tunnel and waited for a calm day and four other helpers to put on the cover.

Cover on, ready to go, let the growing commence !

Inside the poly tunnel, laying out the paths and the beds

Warm and windfree, it's a lovely place to be .

A happy afternoon was enjoyed on the Primrose Walk 

at Laide Community Woodland

at the beginning of the month,

with lots of entrants for the duck race.

Lots of cheering for the duck race

   

Wilma found a new friend in Charlotte who looked after her very well for the afternoon

The days are getting longer, sunset at 10.20 pm, down by the jetty

Fishing boat at sunset

All aglow at 10.25 pm

Scotch evening mist

The lambs take sleeping very seriously

The old carpet was being used to mulch the docks but the lambs had different ideas

Born together , stay together

Found a beautiful pipit's nest with 3 eggs in the grassy bank on the shore

The nest is just about in the centre of this photogragh, well hidden in the grass

Here's mum

Hatched and hungry. Sadly the next day the nest had been pulled apart and no sign of the chicks

On Wednesday, 14th May Peter Cunningham, biologist 

very kindly got out of his sleeping bag 

to meet a small group of us at 5am

 to walk us through the Laide Community Woodland 

to hear and identify the early morning birds.

Thank you Peter.

5am looking east to Beinn Ghobhlach from Laide Community Woodland

The early morning sky changing colour

Worth getting up early for

Sunlight peeping through the trees

Early morning reflections in Laide Wood

Funny faces in the wood

 Here come the girls !

The Aultbea & District Ladies enjoying ourselves in the Highlands

Beware they may be coming to a venue near you !

Jeanette - leader of the gang !

Irene with that lovely smile !

We're safe, they are behind glass

Don't mess with this lot !

Alma, Maureen, Barbara and Diana

Here we have Maureen, cute but an "ex-Hackney Bird", how did we both end up so far from our beginnings ? We both went to the same primary school in Rushmore Road, Hackney E9 !

Told you to watch out for Hackney birds !

You never know what they will get up to next, never challenge them !

Girls with a sweet tooth

Maureen has managed to find the most unusual item of the day, a rhea's egg, equivalent to 6 hen's eggs ! bought at the Store House in Foulis

 

Here we have the infamous character, "Betty-of-Poolewe", shown here on the right with her bodyguard Jenny.

Approach with caution, you have been warned !

I am joking, Betty is lovely, great fun and she makes a great cup of tea !