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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>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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		<title>Crossbills in the pine trees</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2008/08/crossbills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were back up at the loch the other day, looking out for the osprey, which still seems to be visiting regularly. There was no sign of it that afternoon, but we had a fair bonanza of other feathered locals, including a pair of ravens and a fine display from the resident buzzard family. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swallows are back</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2008/08/swallows-are-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those darn swallows are back outside the bedroom. Three weeks ago we waved the wee ones goodbye as they popped out of the nest and edged their way in stages from the beams to the shed roof, then  to the nearby telegraph pole. It was great to see them fly and the experience came with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osprey overhead</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2008/08/osprey-overhead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a visitor. The first I knew of it was yesterday morning when Lee dived out of the French windows, grabbing his binoculars on the way, and stood out in the rain, scanning the sky. His binoculars are an old Russian Navy pair that he picked up in a junk shop in Whitby, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeaky lodgers</title>
		<link>http://www.highland-insider.co.uk/2008/07/squeaky-lodgers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside my bedroom window is a little mud nest stuffed full of baby swallows. It&#8217;s tucked under the corrugated roof that forms a covered walkway between the cottage and the outbuildings, and it&#8217;s just low enough to be able to see five fluffy punk heads poking out of the rim. The white lipstick markings round their gaping mouths show [...]]]></description>
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