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About Bill Cowie

I've been living on the island since April 2002, alone for the first 5 years, my partner L joined me in 2007. We manage the Island for a Danish family who bought the Island in the early 90's. Their hopes for the Island are to make it self sufficient supporting its inhabitants and that is where we come in. We look after the stock, 3 holiday cottages, machinery, boat and of course the visitors. It is pretty challenging but it is a beautiful place to live and work, we love it and strangely enough we love it even more in the depths of winter when all is quiet apart from the gales and rain. We do a bit of fishing, stock work, stalking deer and loads of other stuff. We have good support from lots of people whom we have met over the years and have become involved in the Island. Too many to mention here but keep an eye on the blog, they'll be there for sure in the future.

Spring Is Here For Sure

Wall to wall sunshine for days here, but cool at night, dry as a bone on the ground and any smell of smoke gives me the jitters. So it was with alarm that I spotted our first visitors under their … Continue reading

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February

Seems like a long time ago now as we sit in the Hotel in Inverness after Lorraine’s visit to Outpatients Raigmore to-day. I see it was the 18th of February that I bogged the bike,the first ever time that I … Continue reading

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Days Off Rona

We have quite a few days off Rona just now and if I get time tomorrow I will post why!!! But to-day, (Tuesday) instead of sticking to shopping or running round Inverness I decided to take a trip round part … Continue reading

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Sunday Morning Walk in The Sunshine

To-day’s walk: Looking at the forecast it is heading down hill later this week after a very dry month. It was a very clear picture first thing but a thin cloud arrived, thankfully not before I had my walk. I … Continue reading

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More From The Eagle Cam

Been busy as usual but we had time on a beautiful blue sky day to have a wee walk down to collect the trail camera, not disappointed. The Golden Eagles are still coming to the ‘remains’, I hope it helps … Continue reading

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Saturday Walk

I bought a new light/small camera last year and never used it until to-day (Saturday 18th). From Ffordes an Olympus OM-D10/12-40mm lens. I have to learn about it, no good sitting on the table!!! The Nikon is getting heavy, the … Continue reading

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The End of the Year Round Up

Well, here we are at the end of 2024, the Blog has been sporadic, such is the pressure of keeping Rona together. We are time poor, it has been a strange year as we move to the retirement stage. Some … Continue reading

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Eagle Cam

I was pleased to see a Golden Eagle back at the winter feed site when I downloaded these images on Thursday. We put out all the remains from our hind cull in the winter, all the bits we do not … Continue reading

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A Stormy November Days Catch Up.

I have spent a lot of to-day on the computer just catching up on the last months stalking mainly. The weather outside is grim, I had a walk around this morning for an hour but even the deer were absent, … Continue reading

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Holiday Time

No posts forever, what is going on!!!! Well the truth is that it has been a busy time since we lost opur last two folk, strange getting back into the work full time again, for how much longer. Nobody knows. … Continue reading

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