Here is Alexander Carmichael enjoying what must have been a rather short and maybe wintry day out in the hills of North Harris with Jo...

Otter / Bèist D(h)ubh or Dòbhran It is perhaps not a well-known fact about Alexander Carmichael that he planned to publish a natural hist...

Continuing with the ornithological theme of the last few blogs, Alexander Carmichael noted down a short anecdote, presumably from a relation...

Yet another extract from the long letter – we cannot be accused of exaggerating – which Carmichael wrote to Nether-Lochaber informs this blo...

Following on from a recent blog entry, Alexander Carmichael continues his notes on nature by turning his attention to a rather peculiar inci...

Some six months ago we published a blog giving Alexander Carmichael’s nature notes concerning Black Grouse or Coilich Dhubha . In a long, an...

Previously in the blog we noted a story about the killing of the last auk in St Kilda. This snippet of information was picked up by Alexande...

Among Alexander Carmichael’s friends in Edinburgh was Mrs Mary Mackellar, née Cameron (1834–90), the poetess from Fort William who had liv...