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	<description>The views from my bit of the Highlands</description>
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		<title>A bonny view and some balls on sticks</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2012/01/a-bonny-view-and-some-balls-on-sticks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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Nosy Norris and I followed the Pack Leader up the Ullapool Hill paths this morning and as usual his choice of route didn&#8217;t disappoint. Nosy got the chance to bounce around in the heather and chase snowballs (puny wee things, but still fun) and I got my first view of bonny Loch Achall.
A great walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices from the dark loch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wee gang of wigeon have been gathering by the shore of the loch over the past few days. There were about a dozen when the PL first noticed them, increasing to thirty-one last time we were able to count them.
The reason we can&#8217;t always count them is that sometimes we walk past that spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House martins v midgies</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/05/house-martins-v-midgies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The midges may have driven us indoors the other day but they brought the house martins out in force. A few have been swooping over the garden for a couple of weeks now, but when their favourite mobile snack arrived on the scene they brought some more pals along for the party.
There were at least thirty of them today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wagtails everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a weekly nature column in the local paper and over the past three summers this has always featured the pied wagtails that have taken to nesting on a shelf in the old stone shed. They always get in there early, make a flattish nest (full of Nosy Norris&#8217;s hairs this year, of course), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I blame Chris Packham</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/04/i-blame-chris-packham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blame Chris Packham.
The Pack Leader has always been an interesting companion on country walks; he has the gift of noticing things that most people miss. So, over the years I&#8217;ve seen countless birds, tracks, squashed down bits of undergrowth where wild things have recently lurked&#8230; all things I would have missed on my own. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hairy moments with a chaffinch</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/04/helpful-chaffinch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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Nosy Norris is a very hairy dog indeed. You might think that the reason a very hairy dog has that much fluff is because it needs it all to keep it warm. Apparently not. The hair is designed to shed and Nosy Norris could shed for Britain in 2012. I&#8217;ve come to believe that she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nairn beach &#8211; take a step back</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2011/02/nairn-beach-take-a-step-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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Visitors to Nairn are drawn to the beaches like a seagull to a bag of chips. You can&#8217;t blame them. Nairn&#8217;s east and west beaches are glorious, golden stretches of fine sand with views across the Moray Firth to the Black Isle and the mountains beyond. But if you take a step back from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pining for mixed woodland</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2010/04/pining-for-mixed-woodland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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Sometimes I long for more variety in the woodlands around here. Most of the hillside is covered in regular, over-crowded pine plantations which, in their denser parts, seem almost dead with dry earth, little light and an eerie lack of noise.
It&#8217;s improving though. Four years ago the Estate sent the foresters in and great swathes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the birds&#8230; to the birds</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2010/03/feeding-the-birds-to-the-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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The long winter brought an unexpected dilemma for us. All through the weeks of snow we dutifully kept the garden feeders topped up with peanuts, fat balls, even home-made ones when we were snowed in and couldn&#8217;t get down the hill for supplies. We watched with great satisfaction as the population of small birds flocked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geese &#8211; coming or going?</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2009/03/geese-going-round-in-circles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched a huge gang of geese flying over the fields around Castle Stuart near Ardersier this morning. They seemed confused, going off in one direction for a bit then changing and switching back again. They were still mooching around like this by the time I&#8217;d gone into Inverness Airport, drunk a coffee, drove through Adersier and back [...]]]></description>
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