Dr Fiona Porter

@fionaporter.bsky.social

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Glasgow based but out in the hills as often as possible. Physics background. Mahler and opera fan. Learning Gaelic and Italian. Veggie. Likes dogs. Feeder of hedgehogs.

The weather forecast for Dornie in Scotland: 16 C today and dry.
A posy of flowers sitting on a windowsill.
Sea cliffs showing lots of seabirds, especially guillemots.
The cast and conductor of Scottish's Opera's The Marriage of Figaro, taking their curtain calls.
A young rabbit sitting quietly.
3 wedges of homemade shortbread.
Close up of a gorse bush in full glorious yellow bloom.
A trail camera picture of a hedgehog at a good dish.
Bank note with two red squirrels shown playing on a tree.
Early signs of snowdrops appearing, with just the tips visible.
The book cover of Nightwalking by John Lewis-Stempel, showing a moonlit, snowy lane with a badger to one side and a distant fox.
A red post box with a knitted Christmas themed top, with snow, Santa, a snowman, a penguin, presents, a Christmas tree and the Grinch.
Looking up to the summit of Ben A'an from the path up.
Mural of Saint Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow, with the robin he brought back to life after it had been killed by some of his classmates.
View to mountains over a sea of clouds
View of the Cobbler from Ben Lomond, over a sea of clouds.
Four diagrams: one showing a walker crawling into a heavy wind, the second someone out in torrential rain, then a thermometer indicating cool temperatures and finally a bridge surrounded by flood waters.
A Big Easy bird feeder with lots and lots of small birds (mostly greenfinches) feeding from it. All 6 feeding ports are in use and birds are queuing.
The Queen greeting Liz Truss at Balmoral. The Queen's right hand shows extensive bruising.
View from a trig point on a mountain across the sea to the hills of the Scottish mainland on a sunny day.
View of mountain reflected in a loch.
Logo of dead animal with feet in the air.
A knitted post box topper, with blackbird, robin, flowers, birds nests and a bunny eating a carrot, on a sunny day with Glasgow sandstone tenements behind.
Spring flowers in front of a lawn and trees.
A pint of beer on a wooden table, in front of a station building.
Views to the mountains of Glencoe.
A sign saying Corrour Station with a distant view of Ben Alder, under a blue sky.
Photo of Quinag in north west Scotland with snow on the hill and blue skies.
View from Skiddaw to Derwentwater - blue skies everywhere and no snow in sight.
3 pine martens at a bird feeder table, eating sunflower hearts from a seed feeder, the table and the ground below the feeder.
Cover image of Appetite for reduction cookbook by ISA Chandra Moskowitz.
A frosted over pond with distant waterfowl
Daffodils growing in a garden
Book cover, I saw the world end, by Deryck Cooke.