The Memory Wanderer: Loch Farlary Osprey

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Loch Farlary Osprey

We'd only been watching an osprey working its way upwind high above Loch Farlary for a few minutes this morning when it suddenly dived and....

....picked up a fish, after which....

....it flew away southwards, suggesting that this is one of the birds....

....which nest at Loch Fleet.

Some hours later, on our way home, we spotted the osprey again, sitting on a fence post below the road. It then returned to his search for fish....

....starting downwind of the loch and working its way up it, going round twice before....

....being chased away by a pair of ravens.

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The Memory Wanderer

I'm at the wrong end of the road, a short distance to look forward to and a long way travelled, so I spend more time looking back, enjoying the memories, and less time in anticipation of the way ahead. The road trodden has been a good one, a rich and winding one, over which I hold no regrets. There is much still to do - only the end of the track ahead intimidates.

Time is mine now, so I remember, sometimes deliberately, sitting in the warm sunshine, sometimes because my mind, as if keen to help, suddenly gives me a flash of memory, a vivid picture which, like an exploding rocket, illuminates a moment in life; and then fades.

I have seen its dark side but, in general, the world has been kind to me. I have few regrets, I have many blessings, so these thoughts are offered as a celebration of a fortunate life.