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Winter Arrives in Lewis

Posted: Monday, 29 October 2007

With changing weather patterns, the calendar-based division of the year into neat seasons of about three months each is, for me, and many others, a pointless exercise. Instead, I find myself looking for new patterns and faithful markers in the such things as bird migration, and I'd be very happy to know of yours.
My particular, sure-fire proof of the coming of winter is the arrival on Lewis of flocks of red wings and fieldfares. These northern species, both thrush-like, make their way down to the islands and other places in Scotland from Scandinavia around this time of year. And yes, this weekend, as thought they knew the clocks were going back, they arrived on the croft and are now here in quite large numbers.
They'll be gone again in a day next spring, maybe around April or later into May, and then begins the only other season we seem to have now.
A happy and fruitful winter to all.

Posted on Peatstack at 15:16

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I go outside, on an evening, and take a deep breath, and if winter is coming, I can smell all the peat fires in the night air. That's usually a good indicator to me that winter is here. I would've thought that you should have got that one Peatstack, or have the tourists been at you again???

Notthewhites from Lewis

Do they like to nick wee bits of peat stack to take home as a memento?

Flying Cat from remembering tourists from Carshalton

Well I think there are two seasons of the year, from about March until August is one - it's called Non-Christmas and the other is from Mid-August until March, sometimes even later - it's called Christmas. It is quite easy to tell them apart, you notice the decorations in the shops, gift catalogues through the door and adverts for The-Must-Have-Toys-Of-The-Year on the telly (usually to be found even more frequently on kids channels and early mornings, especially weekends). And the other season (Non-Christmas) is filled with the sight of sales, selling all the c**p no-one wanted to buy. Cynical Mother Earth

Mother Earth from Behind the Peatstack

Mother Earth, were you responsible for removing small bits of Peatstack and planting them in strategic positions on the Lewis Peat Calendar 2008?

Flying Cat from all agog

I knew I should never of let Jock borrow those samples of my new lingerie range.

Peatstack from In hiding

You weren't hiding too much on that Calendar PS, now were you?

Tws from Scene It

People in glass houses...shouldn't fling peats.

Flying Cat from behind a Large Constable

I had to break off a phone conversation yesterday to watch a line of six snowy white whooper swans flying in a line along the coast next to Brebhig harbour. They seem to be resting up behind the Coll centre just now. Sights don't come much better......

Samuel Johnson from Lewis

Will you leave that Large Constable alone FC, you naughty pussy you.

Tws from On Top Of The World

For peats sake!!!!!

Mother Earth from Page 3 of the Peatstack Calander

Page Three!!!!! Is it????

Flying Cat from haunting the letterflap

Whoops!

Flying Cat from picture this

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