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Lost Birds and Fishing Hands: Getting our Bearings on Fair Isle

Ruth Little

  It’s a Caspian Stonechat, and it’s lost. Its feathers are spiked with rain, and it seems to have a hacking cough. It’s been on Fair Isle for a month, and the word around the island is that it’s unlikely to see the Caspian Sea again. ‘Blown off course, all of them’, says one of... Read More ›

Tags: Andy Crabb, bearings, Caspian Stonechat, conversation, Da Fishing Hands, Deirdre Nelson, Fair Isle, Inge Thomson, interdependence, islands, Jennifer Wilcox