Tour Scotland short Summer 4K Friday wildlife nature camera travel video clip of the sight and sounds of a male Blackbird spotted eating Suet on an evening visit and trip to my Scottish cottage garden in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom.The male blackbird is all black except for a yellow eye ring and bill . This widespread bird is a common visitor to United Kingdom gardens, and has adapted well to suburban areas, it’s often possible to get quite close. It can also be found in woodland and grassland areas, but you’re much less likely to see it on areas of higher ground and in some parts of Scotland, Common and widespread across Britain, the blackbird population is currently stable, although it has seen periods of decline in the past. One of the biggest threats is lack of food availability, particularly when the weather is dry. Leaving mealworms and ground feeder mix out on bird tables and planting bushes that attract caterpillars to your garden are great ways to help blackbirds. If you were to believe various myths and folktales, you’d find this solitary, territorial bird to be imbued with evil and supernatural powers. Welsh poet R. S. Thomas observed that there was “ a suggestion of dark Places ” about the blackbird that was at odds with its beautiful song. In the story of the life of Saint Benedict, the Devil was said to have come to tempt the saint in the form of a blackbird. The English nursery rhyme “ Sing a Song of Sixpence ” involves blackbirds “ baked in a pie ” which reanimate and sing when the pie is opened. Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing. August is the last full month of Summer in Scotland and a prime time to explore Scotland's natural attractions with long daylight hours, upwards of 13 to 15 hours per day. This is one of the warmest months of the year, along with July, and you should expect some rain, though just how much depends on where you travel. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September. @tourscotland
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Summer Road Trip Drive With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Guardbridge Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland 4K Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, East on the A91 route to the bridge over the river Eden on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Guardbridge, Scots: Gairbrig, in North East Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. The village takes its name from the 15th century six arched bridge built by Bishop Henry Wardlaw, who founded the University of St Andrews. Some have said the bridge was built to assist pilgrims en route to St Andrews; however, its purpose was to provide safe access for students to ensure the success of Wardlaw's university. St Andrews was one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Europe. Hostels were available every 6 miles along the pilgrim trail, with the last one located at Guardbridge. There, up to 600 pilgrims were provided with dormitories, a refectory and a church. From that point, the Augustinians regulated the numbers travelling into the holy city of St Andrews. The average stay in the town was three months. David Finlay VC, born 29 January 1893 was from Guardbridge. He was the son of a shepherd named George Finlay and his wife Susan Small. He was 22 years old, and a lance corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch Royal Highlanders, British Army during the First World War when was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Finlay was later promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 21 January 1916 and is remembered on the Basra Memorial. There is a memorial stone in the children's play park in the north end of Guardbridge his home village. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September. @tourscotland
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Summer Road Trip Drive With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Dairsie Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland 4K Summer travel video, with Scottish bagpipes music, of a road trip drive on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Dairsie in North East Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. The village of Dairsie is located on the A91 Stirling to St Andrews road. The village grew out of two smaller settlements, called Dairsiemuir and Osnaburgh, and developed principally around the industry of weaving. The 18th and 19th century cottages were once occupied by linen weavers, many of whom came from Flanders. Dairsie benefitted from the development of the turnpike road in the early 19th century. Since the late twentieth century it has become a dormitory settlement for nearby towns. The village formerly known as Dairsiemuir may have derived its name of Osnaburgh from weaving osnaburg, a coarse linen or cotton, originally imported from Osnabrück in Germany. A castle is first mentioned by Dairsie in 1160 and King David II, born 1324, died 1371 was said to have spent much of his childhood here. It was there here that the bitterly divided Scottish Lords met in 1335 to decide how best to deal with the English, who were able to invade Scotland at will. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September. @tourscotland
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Summer Evening Loch Hourn On History Visit To The West Coast Of Scotland
Tour Scotland short 4K Summer evening travel video clip of the sight and sounds of Loch Hourn, Scottish Gaelic: Loch Shubhairne, a sea loch which separates the peninsulas of Glenelg to the North and Knoydart to the South, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the West Coast, Britain, United Kingdom. Loch Hourn runs inland from the Sound of Sleat, opposite the island of Skye. The loch is navigable by ships as far as Barisdale Bay. Small boats can reach Kinloch Hourn, but these upper reaches are dependent on tide and subject to strong currents. All of the loch is subject to fierce and erratic winds. There is no road access to most of the shoreline. Apart from a few isolated cottages, the only community is Arnisdale, with a population of around 30. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September. @tourscotland
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Summer Road Trip With Accordion Music On History Visit To Comrie West Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland 4K Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish accordion music, on ancestry, family genealogy, history visit to Comrie in West Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Comrie is located immediately to the west of Oakley on the A907 road between Dunfermline and Alloa. There had been coal and ironstone mining in the vicinity since middle of the 19th Century but the community developed in the 1930s and 1940s along with the sinking of the Comrie coal mine to the northwest by the Fife Coal Co. The mine later became associated with the Longannet Complex, but closed in the mid-1980s. The earliest record of the surname Comrie is from 1297 when Patrick de Strathearn, the third son of Malise, the 6th Celtic Earl of Strathearn, Perthshire, was given a charter for the lands of Comrie from his father, and was therefore entitled to the style Patrick de Comrie. His son was Thomas de Comrie, 2nd of that Ilk, meaning 2nd of that line. Their heirs for over 300 years were known as Comrie of that Ilk, having dropped the “de” around 1500. Details are recorded of legal disputes over the generations, and John Comrie, 8th of that Ilk was outlawed several times for acts of theft and violence. The last Comrie of that Ilk, John, the 9th, was compelled to sell the lands of Comrie to John Drummond, 2nd Earl of Perth for 19,000 merks in 1629, but the following year obtained the lands of Dunira from that same Earl. William James Comrie, born 1860, died 1945, was the son of James Comrie, one of twelve children of WIlliam and Janet who had followed his eldest brother to New Zealand and become a farmer, William became a presbyterian minister in 1888, becoming General Treasurer of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in 1906. He was Moderator of the Church in 1922 and retired in 1928. He wrote a history of the Presbytery of Auckland in 1939. He married Polly Bayly and they had six children. Peter Comrie, born 1868, died 1944, was in Muthill, son of a Blacksmith, he studied a wide range of subjects, both arts and science, at St Andrews University graduating with honours in Natural Philosophy. He was awarded the Carstairs Prize for the best mathematics student. He taught at schools in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and was appointed Rector of Leith Academy in 1922. He was a president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D. by St. Andrews in 1928. He married Charlotte Aikman of St. Andrews in 1917. John Dixon Comrie, born 1875, died 1939 was the youngest son of a much loved GP in Peterhead. John Dixon Comrie graduated with an MB degree, first class honours, from Edinburgh University in 1899. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1906, in which year he edited the first edition of Black’s Medical Dictionary, continuing as editor until the 17th edition published posthumously. He took an MD degree in 1911. He did postgraduate studies in London, Berlin and Vienna. During the first World War he bacame Officer-in-Charge of the Second Scottish General Hospital and then acted as consulting physician to the North Russian Expediationary Force, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was lecturer in medical history at Edinburgh University and held consulting posts at several Edinburgh hospitals. He married Margaret Hewat in 1911; they had three daughters. Leslie John Comrie, whose ancestry was Scottisg, was born in 1893, and died in 1950 was born in Pukekohe in New Zealand and attended university in Auckland where the Computing Laboratory now bears his name. He lost a leg in the first World War and after recuperating settled in the United Kingdom. He became the first director of the Computing Section of the British Astronomical Association in 1920 and gained a PhD degree from Cambridge in 1922. He became deputy superintendent at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1926. He was a pioneer in the use of calculators to create mathematical and astronomical tables. In 1937 he founded the world’s first private company for scientific computing. During the second World War he headed a team of thirty scientists to computerise war work, such as the creation of bombing tables. He published several books of mathematical tables. He married twice, first to Noelene Dagger. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical Summer in Scotland is Tuesday, 21 June, ending on Friday, 23 September. @tourscotland
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