The Daily Scrawl

Blackbirds are common residents in Aviemore and surrounding Cairngorms National Park and can be spotted there year-round. They are famous for their orange beak and rapid hopping along the ground. I never noticed you  at home possibly because I spent more time being busy in a city but I noticed you here some time after I arrived and felt homesick for the first time and there you were on the green grass with your orange beak in the middle of winter they say you are a symbol of change and transformation and you connect the life and death as some…

Photograph by Carol Leather https://www.naturewalkswithcarol.com The speugs an’ the stuckies The doo an’ the craw A’ shout at their limit Here comes oor maw. She’s gote a wee baggie Wi’ seeds an’ some fat. Stey back you dumb blackie Or she’ll throw ye her hat. The speugs an’ the stuckies Whit a racket they make As they perch oan the branches To see whit they’ll take.  She opens the baggie An’ peers in aboot She pits in her haun Then taks it back oot. Wi’ a flourish she casts Her airm high an wide An oot fly the seedies In…