Being out in the countryside with my dogs gives me time to think. I’ve learnt the pleasure of solitude without being lonely, and that’s a good feeling for me.
A YOUNG Labrador was taken to live in deepest Aberdeenshire. Its instincts told it that it was a Labrador Retriever and it set out to earn its keep by retrieving as many of the local hens as it could get its teeth into. Unfortunately by the time he delivered them to his master’s feet the hens were either dead or moribund.
OPINIONS DIFFERED in the past whether buzzards are true birds of prey or carrion feeders – do they eat animals which they have hunted and killed, or eat dead and even decomposing flesh? The reality is that they do a bit of both.