So what’s in a tattie? Plenty of goodness
SHETLANDERS of old were great seafarers and explorers and must have been familiar with the idea of bringing home wild plants from foreign parts for…
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Bad time for seabird populations
ANALYSIS of this year’s seabird breeding data on RSPB’s coastal reserves shows that kittiwakes, Arctic terns and Arctic skuas have had a terrible season, with…
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THE ESSENCE of my horticultural nostalgia has often been of a culinary nature, and has come to renewed prominence this summer. When I first arrived…
READ FULL STORYRare influx of waxwings catches us by surprise
THE BBC Autumnwatch programme featured the waxwings which have been arriving along the east coast of Britain this week. Several also reached Shetland, with 15…
READ FULL STORYA time for battening down the hatches and enjoying fruits of summer labour
GALES, storms, tempests, call them what you will, Shetland was battered, belted, thrashed and flayed by the winds, rain and hail just last week and…
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IT’S been a number of years since we’ve had a storm of such ferocity and duration like the one last weekend – a good learning…
READ FULL STORYSiberian visitors arrive
WE returned from holiday to the recent storms – a stark contrast to the gentle, warm colours of the Perthshire autumn which we had been…
READ FULL STORYFriendly otter delights Tingwall walkers
A PLAYFUL otter made the day for walkers in the Tingwall area last Wednesday. Andrew Swanston, home from Edinburgh to visit relatives in Tingwall, and…
READ FULL STORYTales of the great garden yukkiness that is actually quite nice to look at, honestly
HAS someone been very sick on your lawn lately? Well there was something messy and splatty yellowish and generally vomitious spread all over a lawn…
READ FULL STORYKiller whale studies over for now
A TEAM of killer whale researchers who spent the summer in the isles examining the behaviour and habits of orcas recently completed their studies in…
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WE’VE had quite a bit of rain of late, and some snow to boot; enough to thoroughly moisten the ground without turning the garden into…
READ FULL STORYBuntings and geese join in the great winter migration
A QUIETER week for species diversity up north last week, but still a lot of birds around and always the potential to find something really…
READ FULL STORYOil spill clean up a ‘success’ – Sepa
A CLEAN UP operation is continuing after a major oil spill in Scalloway last week. Around 2,000 litres of black waste engine oil leaked from…
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JUST now and again a woman needs a new winter coat. Having recently acquired a tomato red wool mini skirt in a Boden sale, I…
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