News From Lewis

I've just had emails from two friends on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.  It's -2℃ in Eagleton this morning.  That doesn't happen in December.  One of the friends lives South of Stornoway and sent me this photo of his house:

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

This has absolutely nothing to do with New Zealand but a friend in Scotland who figures in my Eagleton Notes and has blogged as Le Jardinier Écossais during his visits to France sent me a photo he had taken of a Greater Spotted Woodpecker.  Those of you who follow Adrian know that that is no mean feat.  I've never achieved it (but then I'm rarely ever in a position to - there are none in New Zealand nor on Lewis).  This was taken through a window but I think it's a cracking picture:

I Thought I Could Take Photos Until…..

I know that my son Gaz can take fantastic photos.  I was, however, blown away by the few he took last week and has posted on Facebook today at ‘April In Scotland: Why go anywhere else?’  This is one of them: