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RSPB Fowlsheugh in Photos

Posted on May 13, 2016May 13, 2016by Emma Gibb

I’ve already written about the amazing sea bird spectacle at RSPB Fowlsheugh so I thought I’d just put together a little photo blog post on our recent walk here.  The lovely cliff walk is just a short drive south of Stonehaven (you can actually see Dunnottar Castle in the distance) and I can’t recommend it highly enough […]

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It’s been a while…

Posted on October 13, 2014March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

My rather neglected blog has been left to gather dust these last few months, I’m sorry to say.  I last wrote in the summer in a snatched moment of quiet time before life frog-marched me into autumn.  Recently I’ve found little time between working and motherhood for my own writing; my trips and journeys of the […]

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The Seabird Spectacle at RSPB Fowlsheugh

Posted on June 10, 2014March 30, 2016by Emma Gibb

This blog post should really be entitled: ‘How my search for puffins led to two amazing coastal and seabird colony discoveries’ (not the catchiest title though).  I hadn’t realised until last week that you could see puffins in the Aberdeenshire area, and what started as a fun idea for a family day out ended up in […]

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