Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 27th April 1928
This is the last entry in Viola’s diary and brings this feature on our blog to an end. Writing in April 1928, Viola talks about bird behaviour and tells a […]
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Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 26 Apr 1928
A quick note before we begin. Although it appears we have jumped back in time and missed this diary entry…we haven’t! We are just following the order the entries appear […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary – 28 Apr 1928
After a long period off from writing in her diary, Viola returns with a long entry about one of her favourite birds: geese. Viola has travelled to Flanders Moss to […]
Viola Stirling’s Nature Diary: 1922-1928
A very short diary entry finds Viola cover six years in three sentences! From the period of 1922-1928 Viola does not keep a regular update of her diary. She herself […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – 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 […]