At last after more than a week of freezing cold the warm air has returned and once again the promise of summer is in the air. The first breeding success has registered with the scrambling calls of newly hatched starlings come from deep within the old wifes dike. The breeding season in the garden is looking good just now with song thrush,dunnock,greenfinch and robins paired up. Sparrows blackbirds and starlings are going at it as well!!. Down the fields we have common gull, lapwing, oystercatcher and snipe on the go. There are several nests of curlew around the house and the bubbling in the air counterpoints the mipits and skylarks wonderfully.....chance of northern lights tonight !!

 Its Beltain baby, the year kicks in gear. We will be having a wee fire once it darkens down a bit. In the mean time this is a

primus type stove i bought at an old mart sale. Just been getting it going for the first time in a while. Might look for a coffee pot for the shed next......ya all have a good Beltain.!

 Well well six years on are stirrings  once again, is theis blog going to wake from coma, fuck knows but I smell bacon on the air....

Two years on.

Well here we are again, two years on.....darkness is once again returning. With all the bollocks and personalities that are involved with the aurora I thought I might keep this for having a wee spout off rather than facebook.Its nearly the the start of the sorry old grouse season so if you like your grouse live and flapping you have come to the right place...its quite quiet as it goes just now. Wind speed is picking up a bit and theres a chance of a glow over the weekend. Its also the Persids shooting stars this weekend. Unfortunatly its not going to be the bigest display in human history as advertised by some groups on facebook. It has been interesting to watch as the story developed. After the first meme was shared about it was fairly dismissed and debunked but yet astronomy and science pages were seting the same message to new graphics in an effort to seem if they were the ones predicting this huge event. Its all quite amusing but makes you think how much you can trust the veracity of the rest of their pages......not that mine is run by any kind of expert i should add....lol.

Atlast something in the sky to post as noc cloud sweeps over followed by more cloud.

95

Another poor night of colour with it taking 60 seconds to draw out the colour. The glow was easly seen by the eye tho.,,,kp1 !!

Multo marginalie

After such a fine show the next night brought a good amount of cloud ands a show. I have seen nice photos from Skye last night. Here was a different story tho. We were clouded out from stare to bed time. All i managed was a couple of shots of the sky through the gaps. There is a red glow to be seen each tome the clouds part but they just wouldnt split enough to show....marginal is the discription for 94.

92 came last night although it to some teasing to show its face. 93 tonight has come storming in as a slow moving filliment eruption was thrown in by a faster moving flare cme. Its gerat conditions overhead and we have not been disapointed !!

The earths magnetic field has settled down , this along with the full moon and there has been little to be seen for nights. The nights now are shortening as summer rushes towards us. The end of the season for me is getting closer.

Ooops.

91

 Four days since my last sighting, frustratingly I was down with a bad back. I missed at least one night. Managed to get back in tow now tho with a display last night that showed very well against the strong moon light.

90

A thin show starting out tonight but there is time yet. Nice ring about the moon tho !

89

88

88 came up fast last night only to drop back as fast. Two brief views on consecutive nights. Conditions are still elivated and the EPAM looks good. Roll on darkness.

A wee photostream of the last few nights.

87 Just crept over the horizon. I dont know if its going to clear enough to get a propper view tho.

The rest of the catch up

The night after the CME produced another small show as a precurser to the morning of the eclipse. Needless to say although it was a little cloudy the almost total eclipse was a spectacular affair. The night produced another display that was seen a long way south, a great day !! The next night produced the curious blob as a rogue ribbon of light  pusated from the eastern side of the sky overhead and off to the south south west. The ribbon was actualy south of us !! The night of the 22 produced the start of a display before being lost to the cloud....So thats all up to date at 86. its been a cracking week in to the equniox and tonight we are missing storming conditions to the cloud cover.....I feel a photo stream coming on......

Catching up a bit.

81 showed little more than a difuse show on the horizon before dropping back to show later in the night. 82 came storming in to produce the biggest show this year. The awaited CME produced aurora that was seen all over the UK. We suffered like a lot of places with mist and fog. Unfortunatly it seemed to suck the colour out of the sky. The display was massive tho with hours of bands passing overhead fading and growing. Ocasionaly it would stop moving and seem to fall out the sky in a coronal display that would go on and on.. A great night even with the conditions......83 is on right now as im typing. Theres a lot of cloud obscuring it but its showing green to higher than 50 deg !!!....theres more of the update to come tonight.