A communications mast is proposed for this area in Abernethy nature reserve. Since I wrote about the threat to wild land from phone masts la...

  With snow lying since late December and temperatures rarely rising above freezing for over a month our feeders have been emptying fast eve...

The mild weather of the last few weeks has seen a reduction in the number of birds coming to the feeders in our garden, so I wasn't ex...

Raven page from the excellent Collins BTO Guide To British Birds A rush of air. I looked up. A raven. Flying low some fifty metres away....

This year's Big Garden Birdwatch saw far more birds than last year, probably because the weather has been cold and wintry where last ...

Chaffinches in the rain The last three months of mostly mild weather has seen a big reduction in the numbers of birds visiting the feed...

Taking part in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch always makes for an interesting and somewhat hectic hour. Trying to count masses of sm...

Environment Minister Aileen McLeod presents the JMT Award to Ms Grace Moir The John Muir Award is one of the great success stories of ...

Bynack More rising above Abernethy Forest This article first appeared in The Great Outdoors a year ago. I've been thinking abou...

The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch is an important snapshot of how garden birds are doing. We al...

Loch Garten Out on the loch beyond the water lilies a goldeneye duck and duckling floated in the sunshine below the cloud-dappled blue ...