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Mrs Macdonald milking Daisy the cow at Hougharry, North Uist
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CEP - North Uist
Mrs Macdonald milking Daisy the cow on the machair at Hougharry, North Uist. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1967.
08 February 2017
Traditional fallow croft field strip on the machair, North Uist
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Traditional extensive croft field strip on the machair at RSPB Balranald, North Uist, showing a fallow strip which is left uncultivated. Note how wildlfowers including the red Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) have been left rather than killed by herbicides.
08 August 2017
Croft field strips and fallow on the machair, North Uist
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Traditional extensive croft field strips on the machair at RSPB Balranald, North Uist, showing strip fields of mixed barley and oats, and a fallow section on the right. Note how wildlfowers have been left rather than killed by herbicides, which provides nectar for insects and seeds for birds.
08 August 2017
Heather on the Cleadale cliff scree slopes
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Eigg - Cleadale cliffs
Heather or Ling (Calluna vulgaris) on the scree slopes below the Cleadale cliffs, Eigg. Below the Tertiary basalt cliffs is pastoral landscape formerly dotted with crofts.
02 September 2016
Cleadale cliffs, Eigg, showing the lava flows
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Eigg - Cleadale cliffs
The Cleadale cliffs, Eigg, showing the lava flows.
02 September 2016
Shetland ponies, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Shetland ponies with foal, Mornington, Foula. Crofters often didn’t have enough to feed them, so Shetland Ponies were marked to establish ownership and then set loose to run wild on the common or ‘scattald’. The ponies would be caught again when they were needed to carry out tasks.
28 June 2014
Lazy beds at da Ristie, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Lazy beds at da Ristie, Foula, old fields cultivated with raised ridges to deepen the soil, with deep ditches between them to drain the rain water. Now very few people live in this previously much busier crofting landscape.
