Tour Scotland 4K late Autumn travel video of the Doocot, or Dovecot on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Boarhills in the East Neuk of Fife. Originally built by lairds to provide secure accommodation for flocks of rock doves, the doocot’s purpose was to provide estates with a delicacy for the table. The birds were prolific, needed little space as they lived in nesting boxes which lined the inside walls of the doocot, their guano, dung. Although the Romans kept pigeons, it was the Normans who introduced doocots to Britain. The first ones appeared in Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries. Boarhills is a tiny hamlet four miles south-east of St Andrews and just a mile inland from where the wooded valley of the Kenly Water flows into the North Sea.
Autumn leaf color or colour is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American English
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