The Duff House Walk
Join me for a walk in the woods close to Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Posts from the ‘Wildlife’ category
The Love Chickens
The Sound of Cretan Bees
Join me at the Vritomartis Naturist Resort close to Hora Sfakion, Crete as I listen to the very busy bees and other insects buzzing around large plants close to our beautiful room which overlooks the Libyan Sea. You might also hear the occasional bird!
The Beetle Sex Orgy
These tiny spotted beetles (top left of image) spent the whole day in the bush outside our room mating. Twosomes, threesomes, foursomes – beetles, it seems, have a really good and varied time in the mating season. Lucky them!
The Mountain Critter
I came across this little chap whilst I was wandering around the mountains in Crete today. He or she wasn’t best pleased to see me and soon scampered off. We’ve been trying to work out whether anyone owns the goats or whether they are just wild…
The Chickens
The Handsome Couple
The Chickens
The Bees
The Sleepy Fox
The Punk Rock Chicken
I can’t help thinking that this chicken was issued with the wrong feet…
The Pink Chicken
The Chickens at the End of the Ramp
The Big Chicken
The Chicken Itch Scratched
The Monochrome Chicken
The Stuff of Nightmares
The Winking Chicken
The Chicken
The Pals
The American Eagle
The Cacophony of Birds
Join me at a bird colony on a rock which sticks out of the sea just West of Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. If you listen, you will hear the sea washing around the column of rock and the birds, who cling to and nest of the sheer rock face (see image) and make an almighty noise. You can hear the natural echo as the bird sounds bounce off the cliff faces which surround the rock column. You will hear seagulls, gannets, razorbills, cormorants and many other birds – all squawking away. You’ll hear ‘peak squawking’ at about 2 minutes.
Recorded using my parabolic mic and a Zoom H6 (my Zoom F6 still missing in transit!)
The Hitchhiker
There is always someone who wants a free ride!
The flowers, the fungi, a bird and a fly – 2
A few more flowers and other wild things for you to enjoy…
The flowers, the fungi and the odd bird…
The Hawk
The Walk in the Woods…
Join me and enjoy the sounds from our dog walk in the woods near to Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire, this morning. You’ll hear the sounds of woodland birds, including a fine woodpecker, streams and all the other sounds (including, if you listen very carefully, golf ball hits from the nearby Dufff House Royal Golf Club.)
All sounds recorded on my parabolic (directional) microphone using a ZoomH6 recorder (My Zoom F6 still hasn’t arrived!). The sound was mixed (using adaptive noise reduction) using Adobe Audition.
The Walk in the Woods…
The Squabbling Crows
Join us as we listen to a group of crows squabbling over something…
The Big Birds and the Little Birds
Join us in our back garden where, because we live on the coast, we have seagulls swirling about over our heads all day. After a while, you stop noticing their shrieking (about a minute into the recording, the seagulls really shout out loud!). You can hear the tiny birds tweeting away. They sit in a tree in the garden waiting to be fed…always hungry.
The Hoot Owl
The Robin
The Chicken
The Owl
The Chicken
The Croc Lady
The Croc Lady – Richard Broom Photography
The Monster
The King
The Fluffy Chicken
The ‘Coming To Get You’ Chicken
The Spoon-billed Chicken
The Lonely Chicken
The Big Fluffy Chicken
The Blue and Yellow Chicken gets the worm
The Red-Faced Chicken
The Squabble of Chickens (+ lots of poop)
My ornithology and collective noun skills are clearly out of whack.
The Little Pal…
This little chap follows us around waiting for food when we take the dog for a walk in the woods.
The Chicken Twins
The Bug
Clear for take off…
The Big Pussy
The Angry Monkey
The Bug
The Pecker
The Big Bird
The Snooze
The Itch Scratched
The Chicken on the Rock
The Grumpy Sea Chicken
The Scavenger (1)
The Fish
The Little Critters
Vegetarians step away from the blog! Just help land 9 boxes of these little critters from a trawler that arrived at MacDuff Harbour about an hour ago. Until I started this job (harbour night-watchman), I had no idea it was possible to catch prawns this size in the waters off the coast of Scotland.
The Other Hook Nosed Chicken
They get just everywhere!
The Hook Nosed Chicken
The Monster
The Bunny Girl
The Clear Need For Dental Intervention
The Big Pussy
The New (Unidentified) Chicken
We saw a new type of chicken today whilst we were walking the dog on the beach. We know it is a chicken but we’re wondering what kind of chicken it is…
The Just Good Friends…
The Foxy Chick
The Bat Hotel
Where else would bats hang out?
The Mess of Sea Chickens
The Electric Chickens
Chickens who don’t realise they’re standing on high voltage cables.
The Clockwork Orange Legged Sea Chicken
They really are like little wind-up toys!
The Curly Beaked Sea Chicken
The Seal Watching Me Watching It…
A seal watching me walk the dog today off Boyndie Beach, Banff, Scotland.
The First Chicken
The first chicken of 2020…
The Last Chicken…
2019’s last chicken!!!
The Monster
The Sneaky Chicken
The Flat-Faced Chicken
The Muscovy Chicken
The Hidden Chicken
The Chicken on its nest…
The Queue of Chickens
Queue might just be the newest collective noun…
The Surfer Chickens
The Rock Chickens
The Weed Chickens
The High-rise
Twice a day the sea rolls in and covers these rocks which, it turns out, are high-rise blocks for marine wildlife. Also, something of a smorgasbord for the local sea birds when the tide rolls out…
The Sea Chicken
One of the many sea chickens we see around here….
The Uncooperative Chickens…
These somewhat dim chickens are clearly lining up for a group portrait but why did they choose a rock so far away?
The Scottish Orange Legged Chicken
The chickens here in Scotland seem to be well-adapted to living in the shallows where they dig up worms and other tasty morsels. Some of the Scottish chickens even fly!
The Tail Waver
A seal waves its tail in the air whilst sitting on a rock close to Banff, Scotland.
The Bushy Tailed Rabbit
The Red Breasted Chicken
The Black Chicken
The Grumpy Rabbit
The Pussy
The Chomper
The Sunbathing Stripy Tailed Short-Eared Rabbit
The Short-Eared Leaf-Eating Rabbit
Richard Broom Photography 