I got to visit my favourite tree this morning. The poor old soul is healing slowly after being butchered one Christmas by Holiday makers, just to decorate their weekend rental (I don't think I'll ever forgive them).

What a lovely place for the works van to breakdown.

I had a stern looking supervisor at work tonight, definitely not happy with the mess he's found up there.

XC weather showing 100% cloud cover for the eclipse, I would have expected nothing less. It's going to be dry at least so that's something to look forward to

There's quite a lot of rain again, the gutters aren't coping at all, they've had a very busy summer.

What a good year for orchids, there's more of them in Reiff than daisies just now.

Only 7cm of rain over the last 24hrs? It seemed so much more.

Today's ducks of Reiff.

The first Shellduck chicks of the year are out on the Loch of Reiff today.

A Black-tailed Godwit chilling out with the ducks and a couple of Redpolls looking as furious as ever.

A Sea Eagle strangely camouflaged as it glides over Lochbroom.

A flock of Whimbrel dropped onto Reiff for lunch today.

A very glamorous Pintail duck,and a Cormorant flashing some Oystercatchers on the Loch of Reiff.

I thought we'd had an Arrival👽 on The Loch of Reiff but it's just a Heron having a snooze.

My new house guest arrived today, thank you @happytoast.co.uk . I hope it'll be happy here.

That was a nice place to cosy down for the night.

Looking down an old rotted fence strainer. The knots are made of tough stuff.

Stinky but stunning. A whale carcass washed ashore at Badentarbet on the Coigach Peninsula.

Honestly the Summer Isles are real. We don't do the naked dancing , the cold or the midges would put a stop to that nonsense if anyone took the notion. We do have festivals though , again no naked dancing involved.

A stoat on a post eating Jammy Dodgers and butter at night , we've all done it.

A Heron and a Glaucous Gull enjoying very different weather on the loch of Reiff.

My trail camera fell down so instead of getting film of an animal nibbling at the block of butter I'd put on top of the post, I got a snippet of The Great Escape. No Ives you'll never make it.

I wonder, is the dread of finding out your parcel is with Evri a self fulfilling prophecy? Also,I don't understand the point of these pictures but this one does make a change from the usual knee shot.

Gull , Gull , Eagle , BEE.

Just had couple of those lovelies visiting Reiff too, the first in a long while.

A couple of Long Faced Ducks on the Loch of Reiff.

A couple of Long Tailed Ducks on the Loch of Reiff .

That was a crunchy drive home this morning,the slush that the wind hadn't blown off the road has frozen. This is the coast so I'm guessing it's very bad inland.

I finally got a bit of spare daylight so zoomed off up to Culnacraig for a bit of whale spotting,just missed them but got there in time to see their feathered entourage disappearing behind Isle Martin. Anyway it was a nice enough afternoon.

No wonder the cheapest Renewed, Acceptable phone I got from Amazon kept running out of charge, it has an energy Vampire🧛🏻‍♀️. Baat.