No naturalconnections today. However the web is reporting the arrival of skuas in the Forth and Clyde. This is an annual event - birds dispersing from their breeding colonies further north spend a few weeks in Scottish estuaries harassing terns and other seabirds before the latter head off for their wintering grounds in the southern oceans.
Monday, August 18, 2008
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
- - - - - - - - John Muir, 1838-1914 - -
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