Monthly Archives: April 2021

I’d been round parts of Rottal Estate in Glen Clova with the owner, Dee Ward, but had never been round on my own. I met Dee early on Friday morning and he pointed out the parts of the estate to … Continue reading →

I’d been waiting nearly a week on the wind to drop to get out for a decent walk; I find that windy days are not conducive to seeing wildlife. The wind had dropped considerably yesterday and it was just about … Continue reading →

Rory Putman’s latest book, A Biologist Abroad, is in three parts. In the first part, as a young man in the late 1960s, he visits the desolate central Iceland to study the 30,000 pink-footed geese that breed there in an … Continue reading →