Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph West Sandwick Scotland
Old photograph of crofters cottages on West Sandwick on the Isle of Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is one of the few settlements in the west of the island. The area south of Southladie Flo is an important feeding area for locally breeding Red throated Divers. As recently as the 1800s, the behaviour of the red throated bird was used to forecast the weather; according to the conventional wisdom of the time, birds flying inland or giving short cries predicted good weather, while those flying out to sea or giving long, wailing cries predicted rain. In the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland, the species is still known as the " rain goose " in deference to its supposed weather predicting capabilities. The people of the nearby Faroe Islands believed that if the red throated bird sounded like a cat, then rain was imminent, while a call of gaa-gaa-gaa or turkatrae-turkatrae predicted fine weather.
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