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 […]
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’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 […]
As we enter July, Viola is in grounds at Gartinstarry. In this entry she describes a ‘strange’ experience with a rabbit. This experience does involve Viola shooting a rabbit. We […]
As Viola grows older, she makes fewer entries in her dairy and there are larger gaps between entries. This probably reflects a busier life with school work and friendships taking […]
Viola is out and about on another spring day and spots a Goldcrest and a Firecrest. These birds are cousins of each other but the Firecrest is much rarer. She […]
As we enter 1922, Viola records that she saw over 700-800 geese in the carse between Stirling and Gargunnock. In April, however, she encounters a new bird: the woodcock! Woodcock […]
Viola’s final entry for the year 1921 is very short and concerns a hedgehog. She is at Gartinstarry again, which is just west of Buchlyvie and consists of farmland and […]
At the end of another year, Viola is reflecting on her diary entries and makes a note of two things she had seen in 1921 that she neglected to put […]
It’s December and Viola is writing about her sightings of flocks of geese from the train into Stirling. Her previous diary entry from a few days earlier was written from […]
We are approaching Christmas in Viola’s next diary entry. She is exploring the grounds at Gartinstarry and notes some unusual features of a log she has found. Gartinstarry is located […]