The Annual Clyde Eider Survey is taking place this year from 7th to 30th September. Organised for nearly thirty years by Chris Waltho, the data collected shows the post breeding population of Eiders in the Firth of Clyde is in decline. Chris’s latest report “Clyde Eider News No22 August 2024” can be accessed using this …
Published on 28th August, 2024 on the Arran Eco Savvy website By Jess Wallace, Sustainable Food Coordinator. All photo credits Eco Savvy/Arran Pioneer Project. On the 17th of August we ran an outdoor cooking workshop in conjunction with the Arran Pioneer Project team at Cordon Community Garden. Although the weather was dreich to start with, …
What can you say in seventeen syllables or less? Paperboats is excited to announce the launch of our Haiku Competition. We are inviting writers of all ages to submit their haiku to be in with the chance to win a cash prize and be published in a special Paperboats Zine issue dedicated to the traditional Japanese …
Haiku they spark a moment fireflies then the deeper dark deeper into the forest and deeper still – the silence soothing me asleep the hush of the rain leaf on the river this moment here now the oystercatcher’s cry – cold loneliness, the far north Alan Spence (b.1947) Clear Light, (Canongate: 2005) The language is unobtrusive, …
With thanks to John Campbell and Jim Henderson. Photos include a swannery on the River Severn at Worcestor and images from the recent open day at the new Dyemill bike park in Lamlash.