On the evening of the 9th of October the sky to the north looked slightly peculiar, sort of hazy, so I went outside to check and noticed the haze had a slight green tinge and seemed to be pulsing! It soon dawned on me what it must be and I dashed to get my camera and zoom lens on the tripod.
There are no snails, lichen, voles, etc., here but I could hear cattle vocalizing across the valley, probably spooked by these strange lights which do of course show us the transformation by the Earth's magnetic field of the energy of solar radiation, which would otherwise make the existence of advanced life forms on the planet unsustainable, into the harmless energy of ionized gases before it reaches our DNA. So I reckon that justifies a mention in the blog. It didn't look like on the telly. The moon was out which probably paled the colours significantly. One could see huge rings of light pulsing up from the horizon to the zenith which I guess would be the ionized gases skittering through the lines of magnetic force running down from the north pole. It actually made me feel a bit dizzy and nauseous, as with a migranous aura. I also experienced that when watching the partial solar eclipse some years back. Weird!
9th
Two white-tailed eagles circling each other as they float over Uigshader.
21st
There was a weird cloud in the northern sky. It just appeared there and didn't move but very slowly became smaller and smaller.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this cloud was artificially generated and there was an alien space ship hiding inside, watching us! Or maybe it was somehow linked to the aurora borealis?
23rd - U3A walk to Ardtreck Point
Looking across the top of Loch Harport.
Gesto Bay
Rubha Ban
Isle of Oronsay, behind which is Wiay.
Can anyone remember what this mushroom was?
We couldn't work out whether this was a seal or an otter.
In the end I think the consensus was there was both a seal and an otter who were trying to do our minds in. David subsequently gave us a talk on otters, focusing on a family that live on Loch Harport.
Then we saw these - zoom in to get a better look.
We think they were porpoises.
