Welcome to "Man with two dogs" - the family website for dog owners and dog walkers.

INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS on the countryside and wildlife come my way. A reader e-mailed to say that the swallows had arrived at their house and she wondered how this would affect the pair of wrens that were squatters in one of last year's swallows' nests.

SEVERAL WEEKS ago I mentioned  Swankie's doos' which is Arbroath vernacular for seagulls, and that the origin of the term seems to have been lost. So I was most interested to get a letter from Alastair Cownie with a possible explanation.

WEDNESDAY MORNING – the sun is starting to burn off the frost that has blanked out the car windscreen overnight.

BIRDS NEST in the most unlikely, and sometimes apparently impractical, places.

RED SQUIRREL, cock pheasant and one of our native grey partridge – quite an eclectic mixture to find at the bird table when I arrived home after Easter weekend up Glen Esk.