Storm sweeps through Burghead!

A magnificent 10m puppet made of wicker strolled through the Moray town of Burghead on Saturday. Storm personified the goddess of the sea, and came with a serious message to protect the coastlines and put the environment first. The event was organised by Forres-based Findhorn Bay Arts, and engineered by Vision Mechanics from Leith in … Read more

Boath Doocot

This interesting little building is one of many doocots dotted all over Scotland. Doocot is the Scots word for dovecot, which is a small building for pigeons or doves (doos). This one at Auldearn (9 miles from Forres is in very good condition and stands on a circular mound of land called a motte where … Read more

Birds signal the first hints of Autumn

The dew glistens on the grass, the combine harvesters have done their work and the black bound silage bundles sit silently in the fields, the feeling of summer has lessened, and the first hints of Autumn tinge the leaves on the trees. Meadow Pipit Flocks of Meadow Pipit flutter along in front of us as … Read more