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Findings is a little window into Scotland, a series of musings of birds, whales, flotsam and jetsam, ancient burial sites, Scottish islands and cities� all woven into Kathleen’s day to day.

A couple of chapters didn’t interest me as much about the city, it drifted away from the nature themes (though this isn’t explicitly a nature book) but otherwise I loved Kathleen’s quiet, poetic, Scotland.

On the crex-crex of the corncrake:

“It's unchancy. Fairy music is said to do this; to lead a man on in his confusion and drunkenness, to start, then stop, then begin again from another place, ever luring him on. This was not a beautiful music, it has to be said; hardly the art of the fairies. Mind you, it could be a goblin carpenter, sawing away at his little workbench, if you'd had a few too many at the island disco and were of fanciful mind.�