stay in the scottish borders, but much prefer dumfries and galloway, for it's rich and diverse countryside, rolling hills, and wildlife. keen wildlife/landscape/rivers/ photographer, angler, ornatholigist, hill walker,gardening, water watcher, forestry, seen half a century, look forward to the next two, must visit virginia, and maine, some time soon. nature and habitat conservation of the uplands, moorlands, and riverbanks off the scottish borders, dumfries and galloway. natural history, history, biology, geography, and the rural infrastructure of the scottish borders, and dumfries and galloway. old woodlands and trees, buildings, rivers, brown trout, grayling, salmon, sea trout, barn owl, song thrush, hen harrier, merlin, black grouse, red grouse, skylark, lapwing, curlew, grey partridge, woodcock, snipe, golden plover, adder, badger, geology, flora fauna, preservation and conservation. and a big " GIANT NO" to blankets of sitka spruce, and windfarms on hills and moorlands, of the borders and dumfriesshire. cameras are-fuji finepix s5600, fuji finepix a607, and canon eos350d, canon 450d. canon 6d, canon 80d, future projects-to photograph and film badgers, barn owls, and adders of the scottish borders and dumfries and galloway.