Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: List of birds seen on the Gargunnock Estate, 1922
At the end of her diary entries for 1922, Viola wrote a list of the birds that the Gargunnock Estate Gamekeeper and his son claimed to have seen on the […]
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Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 20th August – 21st September 1922
Viola is catching up with diary entries between August and September 1922. This coincides with the shooting season; there was evidently regular shooting on the Gargunnock Estate at this time. […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 12 August 1922
As we continue through August, Viola observes a meeting of two very different animals: the wren and brown rat. Viola witnessed the actions of six fledgling wrens in her previous […]
Letter, Elizabeth Murray to her brother, Lieutenant Colonel John Murray, 1st – 8th November 1855
This letter is one of the many that members of the Murray family wrote to John when he was serving at Sevastopol in the Crimean War. It is held at […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 8th August 1922
In Viola’s next diary entry she encounters a wren with six fledglings. Wrens are one of our smallest and most distinctive native birds. They are very round in shape and […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 3rd August 1922
Viola’s hunting plans are ruined by a gang of local birds making a racket in this entry from August 1922. Viola is out stalking rabbits but her attempts to shoot […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 31st July 1922
It is the height of summer and Viola is taking advantage of the light nights, being out walking at 10.00 in the evening at Gartinstarry, quite a long way from […]
Government Evacuation Scheme, 1939 – 1945 – Western Stirlingshire
When Neville Chamberlain declared war with Germany on 3rd September 1939, Britain had been preparing for the largest migration of people the county had ever seen. In Scotland it was […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 29 Jul 1922
It’s not often something frightens Viola Stirling but an animal spooks her in her next diary entry: a Goldcrest! Viola describes their call as being a ‘very shrill short […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 28 Jul 1922
Viola’s diary entries for July continue to be written from Gartinstarry, where it appears she is spending much of her summer holidays. She is out on a summer’s evening and […]