....falling in big, slushy flakes down to sea level. Suddenly, birds which have recently been spurning our offerings of food were back at the feeders in numbers, particularly the goldfinches.
We don't have much snow here even during the winter, so this has been a bit of a shock. By nine o'clock it was settling on the lower hills, including Glas Bheinn, but the chill damp....
Cameron Beccario's superb surface winds map - here - shows that these northerlies are bringing down an airmass which has been sitting over Spitsbergen, way above the Arctic circle. Little wonder we're getting snow.
Optimistically, we were planting onion sets yesterday morning, and we've been picking salad leaves from the greenhouse for a few days, leaves grown in a fish box washed up on the Ormsaigbeg shore which has 'Not for Unauthorised Use' written on the side. The owners are welcome to pick it up, and the half-dozen others we have, as is....
....the owner of this flotation pod. It was washed up recently and rescued by Alasdair Thornton at Cruachan croft in Ormsaigbeg. It's waiting for collection right beside the road.
Makes me smile! We nearly carried one back from close to Port nam Partan (GR-349528), near Caliach Point on Mull. Only thing that stopped us was, "what are we going to do with it then?"
ReplyDeleteDoubt it's any consolation Jon, but it's currently snowing in the English Midlands at the moment.
ReplyDeleteDave K.