Jim Crumley - The Courier

A whitethroat bird, which every day sang from the same twiggy branch on the same bramble bush next to the Fife Coastal Path.

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Calming balm of North Sea

June 20 2017, 11.13am

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Teabags one of our most important inventions? I’m lost for words

June 13 2017, 11.38am

The late Michael Meacher who, for Jim, was the last good UK environment secretary.

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Environmental apathy rules in this general election campaign

June 6 2017, 12.01pm

Sand martins gave Jim great joy on a working lunch.

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A wonderful way to pass the day

May 30 2017, 12.13pm

A hen harrier.

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Legal system has failed our wildlife

May 16 2017, 2.25pm

A wolf and cub in captivity at Camperdown Park in Dundee. The question of the animals reintroduction to the wild continues to spark heated debate.

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Returning to reintroduction

May 9 2017, 12.00pm

Deer management is in dire need of reform in Scotland, according to Jim.

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Let wildlife manage wildlife

May 2 2017, 12.19pm

Dundee garden photography workshop pics

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The skylark: poetry in motion

April 18 2017, 7.42pm

Ice fields at Ellesmere Island in Canada, one of many places where the ice is retreating. Earth Day is a chance for all of us to do something to halt global warming, however small.

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Start every week with an Earth Day

April 11 2017, 7.40pm

Dundee players James Vincent and Tom Hateley show their feelings after going 0-7 down to Aberdeen.

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A nightmare at Dens Park

April 4 2017, 7.09pm

The absence of wolves causes deer to forget how to behave like deer.

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Mountains live in fear of deer

March 28 2017, 12.25pm

An awkward moment when Angela Merkel met Donald Trump sums up for Jim why communication is so vital in the modern world.

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Brexit is leaving sour notes

March 21 2017, 12.21pm

Jim is worried about the possible battle oystercatchers like those pictured will have with JCBs over nesting sites.

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Why I’m worried for oystercatchers

March 14 2017, 7.50pm

Great Canal Journey: Episode 1 - (Venice) Timothy and Prunella

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Going to Hell in a canal barge

March 7 2017, 7.48pm

The narwhal-shaped cloud Jim Crumley saw in the Trossachs that he feels may be an omen over climate.

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A cloudy omen of global warming

February 28 2017, 7.57pm

The three roe deer Jim saw when he was out and about on the Insh Marshes in the Cairngorms.

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Winter has failed to turn up

February 21 2017, 7.04pm

John Rankin and Paul McGowan get stuck in during one of last seasons Dundee derbies, the best fixture in Scottish football, according to Jim.

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Two shouldn’t become one — why a merger of Dundee and United is a bad idea

February 15 2017, 11.52am

Ireland taking on Scotland at the weekend in the Six Nations. Despite his love of the country of his birth, Jim wonders if he will be forced to retrace his Irish lineage.

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Are my Irish roots calling?

February 7 2017, 3.03pm

Jim's idea of a special relationship is the way birds like sparrowhawks let their breeding territories overlap with others.

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Birds existing in hillside harmony

January 31 2017, 7.49pm

Lie in rest... or at least make a monument from the Douglas fir, Jim argues.

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If Hermitage’s fallen fir can’t be left in peace, then let it pay tribute to David Douglas

January 24 2017, 11.45am

Lapwings mysteriously hunkered down in the snow on Flanders Moss.

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Best stories are told in snow

January 17 2017, 7.30pm

Frank Sinatra's September of my Years, whose sleeve notes entranced Jim before he had even put the record on.

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Return of the wreckords is music to my ears

January 10 2017, 12.00pm

The Kelpies one of five reasons why Jim feels Scots should be full of self-confidence at the moment.

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Drown out the navel gazers

January 3 2017, 9.30am

Swans on a frozen Loch Leven, yet none of them are white, showing Jim's fascination with the way artists see the world differently.

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Do you see any white birds in this photo?

December 27 2016, 12.00pm

Watching a deer family on a snow-covered mountain showed Jim just how beautifully they blended in to their environment.

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Brush with nature provided a much-needed moment of Peace on Earth

December 20 2016, 12.00pm

Scott Pruitt is in the process of suing the American Environmental Protection Agency which he has just been made head of by Donald Trump.

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Scott Pruitt — The planet will soon have reason to remember the name

December 13 2016, 12.00pm

Paul and Louise Ramsay, who have played a vital role in reintroducing beavers to the Scottish landscape on their Bamff estate near Alyth.

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Hail heroes of beaver battle

November 29 2016, 11.10am

A raven who joined Jim Crumley for an outdoor lunch.

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Call me and we’ll do lunch

November 22 2016, 4.57pm

The late singer Michael Marra.

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A song to set your clock by

November 15 2016, 11.00am

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Madness over beaver fears

November 9 2016, 8.18am

Wildlife woes: Humanity's the problem, says Jim.

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The living planet? — We ARE the ones to blame

November 1 2016, 11.00am

Jim has no problem with Bob Dylan winning a Nobel prize just not in literature.

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It’s the wrong Nobel, Bob

October 18 2016, 7.41pm

Ben Ledi, which formed the backdrop to a day spent observing a river in the Trossachs and listening to its sounds.

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Eavesdropping on a river

October 11 2016, 1.02pm

Perth City Hall.

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Perth City Hall: a not-so-merry square dance

October 4 2016, 7.04pm

Denzel Washington in the remake of the Magnificent Seven, which has infuriated Jim, an ardent fan of the original.

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Anything but magnificent

September 27 2016, 2.18pm

A long-tailed tit, like the ones that thrilled Jim Crumley in his visit to Balquhidder Glen as they swooped through a tree.

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Thrill of unchecked nature

September 20 2016, 1.49pm

The view from Queens View across Loch Tummel. The approval of a barite mine in this area has appalled Jim.

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Ecological disaster awaits

September 13 2016, 6.53pm

Jim caught a fleeting glimpse of a kingfisher by a rain-drenched riverbank but it never returned so he could draw it.

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At peace among wet chaos

September 6 2016, 5.37pm

Enjoying a woodland conversation with a young buzzard helped cheer up Jim after the departure of his beloved swifts for the summer.

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Buzzard chat lifts my spirits

August 30 2016, 7.10pm

Omran Daqneesh in the back of an ambulance in Syria.

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Youthful victims of ‘adults’

August 23 2016, 7.16pm

Grouse season gets under way.

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A not-so-glorious situation

August 16 2016, 3.52pm

Red grouse on moorland grasses

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The Glorious Twelfth – a Victorian throwback?

August 16 2016, 8.00am

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No fears for a Dens farewell

August 9 2016, 7.29pm

The thrush Jim Crumley nursed back to health after it collided with his french windows.

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Time and peace cures all

August 2 2016, 8.39pm

Being alone and at one with nature was one of the themes of books by Margiad Evans.

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Words to bring us back to Earth

July 26 2016, 6.03pm

The surprise sighting of a peregrine falcon lifted Jims heart after all the political upheaval of recent weeks.

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Beauty in this ugly world

July 20 2016, 11.13am

An Arctic tern on the Isle of May in full attack mode.

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Terns’ terms and conditions apply

July 12 2016, 12.51pm

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Brexit: They’ve really put their foot in it

July 5 2016, 12.00pm

The guy from Aberdeen with the Buddy Holly glasses for Prime Minister, anyone?

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Wake up Westminster or you will lose Scotland — and soon

June 28 2016, 12.00pm

The Stone of Destiny being removed from Arbroath Abbey where it was found following its disappearance from Westminster Abbey in 1950 but could it be on the move again?

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Should stone’s destiny be in Perth?

June 21 2016, 10.32am

An arctic tern on its nest

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Nature needs less technology, not more

June 14 2016, 12.06pm

Sir John Major.

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Meaning behind the words

June 7 2016, 12.08pm

The original Royal Arch

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Royal Arch was folly in all senses of the word

May 30 2016, 11.41am

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Stop and see, nature’s magic is all around

May 17 2016, 8.00pm

Dejection for Dundee United's Mark Durnan contrasts with celebration for Dundee's players.

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Haste ye back, Dundee United

May 10 2016, 10.12am

Cars struggle in the mud at last years T in the Park at Strathallan, where there was traffic chaos during the festival.

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Lethal indifference to nature

May 3 2016, 12.12pm

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A tale of two referendums

April 26 2016, 12.25pm

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