you know me well lol

it was fun lol we have a 19ft boat and just sat there with the engine was off, so it just spun. I couldnt get it to do a full 360 without it running out of whirl at about 350 degrees despite a few tries lol, It getst really rough coming across the entrance from the Maidens to Wiay depending on tide state ( usually on way back if we miss the slack tide). The waves hit side on with the currents and thats scary lol. Out the front of Neist at certain tide states its really rough going, we had a wave come over the front of boat once. Luckily the hatch was closed as i usually have that open for climbing through to film the dolphins lol The sea is certainly one to take seriously and has a mind of her own lol.

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature sounds like just the right side of scary :) . Well done.

@@mythtree6348 i just looked up Corryvreckan on YT , thats seriously scary , if our boat went towards something like that id be jumping in and swimming the opposite way lol

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature I've done some terrifying sailing and I shan't be doing it again :) . It impresses me how some folk up here are seemingly born to the waves and just know what to do. Not me, lol. You know George Orwell crashed his boat crossing that whirlpool? There are videos of people diving the Corryvreckan too in the couple of minutes you can safely do so when the water stills. Not keen to try that either !

@@mythtree6348 i wouldnt fancy a sail boat as not enough deck space lol. Im clueless lol this was out first boat and i havent a clue how to use all the sat nav and auto pilot stuff. Tho i know i should really learn how to. but im usually hiding behind my camera and leaving other half to frazzle his brain lol

They know !! lol

My little ophan cub all grown up at 2 yr old give or take :)

You guys have stone martens there and we have pine martens, they are similare but have afew differences

Thankyou :)

ty :)

im amazed they have even been legal !! never come across any tho on wanders luckily

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature Oh I have. Truly awful things :( Cannot believe the Royals are still allowing them on their estates in England. There must be better ways to manage . Anyway, happy foxes here now.

@@mythtree6348 nothing would surprise me with them :( xx

i just call all little fish that i dont know what they are ID wise sprats lol, Same with all the mice, they are just mice to me lol

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature It's nice that you are enjoying wildlife and are able to spend time filming it. Not knowing the names of different fish or mice species is not important, no naturalist knows everything. 🙂

@@lesterstanden2435 the joys of trail cams i can leave them out and see the beauties without disturbing them, tho i would love to see a marten by eye one day :). Its a hobby more than anything professional really :) , I know theres trout in the rive and have seen a heron catch either eels or lamphreys not sure which ones :)

Oh i love that, your quite the talented poet :). i struggle with wording for titles really. even tho different clips they are repetitive unless something unique happens xx

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature Yeah, and it may take a while before we have a special scene on the camera !

very true words :)

lol yup i have way too many videos to wade through and process some are a couple of yrs old still from 2022 :)

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature You're not alone. I have a ton of stuff that may never see the light of day.

lol, wanted to eat it

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature a risky supper I suspect. :/

@@mythtree6348 they do rpedate martens tho not sure how often they do catch them

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature It's that parma violet taste maybe :)

@@mythtree6348 oh that brings back memories lol

it does now you mention it, though i still love your eerie bob cat screams lol

The moss is in an abundance in the forest here :)

sadly i didnt know it was around until an hr after it started. I had my cameras set to 20 sec exposure and 3200 iso. f2.8. Cameras pointing north too so wouldnt have caught it anyways unless i knew it was there at the time to change camera direction which is classic lol

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature you did well tho. It's a nice clip.

one gonna kick off tonight but its cloudy this end

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature So it is !, just started . might try the camera :) That Steve think is very spooky.

@@mythtree6348 oh good luck hun and i can imagine :) gutted i missed it tho

we use hawk to determine a few birds even buzzards are hawks, sparrowhawks, kestrels, harriers etc. Hawks a collective term in the UK

Just got to this, im still catchiing up after days off :). Sadly the best fossils are on the other side of the river but it was too deep and fast flowing for me to get Wolfy over it.

they do love to snot the cameras lol

was a flop for me really, first part of night was covered in cloud, then i got an hour of clearing which i put cam out again, then it rained on the camera even tho no rain was forecast !!, give up at 12.30ish and then it kicked off after that, but prob still cloudy, I didnt even get to see the moon come up lol , supposed to be here again tonight but raining now here

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature You tried hard tho :) . Orange moon over the Cuillin reflected in the sea was very special tho. Nice to have a break in the cloud for once.

@@mythtree6348 oh i do love when it first comes up and has the atmospheric colours, did you get a photo? lol we def were due a break in the weather

one thing the buzzards are great at its posing lol

You know the saying everything tastes like chicken? well chicken was actually on menu lol. The Gulls also get fresh white fish fillets and love sugar free peanut butter

My mum Fox is back to regular nightly visits but i think shes moved her cubs further away and grounded them cos they kept beating her to the goodies. Still have videos to process but not seen them for a while but im sure there just grounded lol

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature do you remember that film/book 'gone to ground' ? best place for them :)

They often get confused with an eagle when in flight, but they are smaller and classed as a Hawk :)

Hes doing well to avoid the hunters :)

​@@AzureOceans_Skye_NaturePowodzenia!!!

I did i cant help myself lol

They are pretty amazing bird although surprised it ate the slug when theres lots of rodents and worms around. I love hearing two of them talk to each other across the forest on a night time :)

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature Well thank you for your reply we appreciate it God bless you 🙏✝️🗡🛡🥀🕊🦅👑🦁🐏🤴🐑🌅🍞❤⭐👍💧🔥☁️🎼🫂✡ John 3:16

@@gretchenchadwick8343 my pleasure :) xx

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature Well thanks again!

Thankyou :) They do have a very eerie scream and noises, great in the pitch black night and you cant see anything lol. You should check out the Little Minx Fox Cub videos had such a character and a little sod lol, All grown up now and gone off into the wilderness on its own :)

aww they found you then lol. Could be an Aurora tonight tho likely past my bed time which is usual :)

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature big aurora last evening and much of the day but the cloud and rain was too much to see through. Will watch again tonight tho :) .

lol thats cute, i found all the midges btw !! they were all up at kilmaluig yesterday Even in the breeze they managed to swarm, Had to abandon ship from sitting on the rocks it was such a massive swarm. Poor Wolfy was covered in thousands of black dots and i dont know how many i managed to swallow before escaping lol

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature euw. the taste of swallowed midgies. yuuuuk. Oddly I've still none and not even a single insect at all today, literally nothing. I'm starting to hope 'ive got some clothes moths left somewhere.

@@mythtree6348 im seeing a lot more insects than last year on the field, which is a good sign.Seeing Bees, Butterflies and Dragon Flies, its starting to warm so we will hopefully see more, just need the rain and winds to go away then can finally get out on the boat. Was gutted i missed the Orcas at Neist last week :(

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature oh that's good :) . Yes, not seen any Orcas for a while.

@@mythtree6348 they will be back :)

Lol that actually made me laugh about no deer or lymes around, even the vets has signs up for it, What many dont realise is Deer dont actually have lymes, Ticks are already infected from small animals and birds, even like blackbirds that carry the lyme bacteria. Strangely enough deer kill off lymes, and when they get bit by an infected tick they produce antibodies that circulate in the blood kill it off . it will even kill the bacteria in the tick itself if its still gorging on the treated blood. I know not all ticks carry the disease also. I was bitten when i was 16 and had the bullseye rash but never ended up with lymes. That wasnt on Skye though it was Northumberland. So rather than avoid Deer areas where deer actually kill off the disease. i dont worry too much as Its probably safer lol, Ive seen deer ticks and they are tiny little things compared to sheep ticks which are larger. Wolfy my dog likes to collect them and bring them home lol But I always found that intriguing about deer being immune and can even work as a vaccine for the tick lol. Yet the beautiful little blackbird and even robin carry the bacteria, so if a tick gets on those it can get infected and then get you lol. irony huh :)

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature ahh glad you are aware . Yes it's in mice and rats and birds and allsorts, and in their pee. The big and small ticks are the same species generally, live on sheep and deer and many other things. I think you may well be correct about deer . My friend got lots of bites and rashes and tested positive but when he took antibiotics he got sicker and the ticks no longer fell off him. He thinks he was immune prior to the antibiotics.

@@mythtree6348 wouldnt you think if the activated antibodies in deer can clean up any new ticks that bite them also, they would make a vaccine from that blood lol. Thats possible he was, i know i had antibiotics when i was bit. but never had any more bites since. The horse flies love me though lol. luckily i dont react like my mum she gets a serious infection from a horse fly bite and has to have antibiotics. So did he end up not being cured of the lymes? I have chronic fibromyalgia so know know how debilitating the pain can be. They seem to have similarities in symptoms so i was tested for lymes when i started to show signs of fibro. I dont catch cold or flu so luckily immune to those , just everything else is falling to bits lol

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature did you see this btw ? "In 55 years we have never seen the seabird colonies on Canna in a worse state. Fulmar, gulls, shags and guillemots at or near record low numbers. Breeding productivity figures for most species well below long term averages. Food supply a big issue." :(

@@AzureOceans_Skye_Nature bless you. It would help if we could get vets and drs to talk together . I've tried for years but they live in different worlds. Its well known that your body can develop resistance that makes a reaction to ticks saliva and so they fall off. My friend had that. They never attached. After the abx the ticks started attaching all the time. People here keep catching lyme getting treated catching it again , over and over. I think its better to develop that saliva reaction if possible. I come up in bumps from everything. its why im so glad theres no midgies at all this year. Probably means the ecology is collapsing or something but at least i dont look like a raspberry this year.