Jonathan: … it’s Spring! Yesterday, close to our cottage at Askernish, the first lapwing, with its oh-so-distinctive call timed with the downward swoops of its flight; and then today high above the croft in Eriskay, the first two skylarks, battling it out in song. Down below, a Blue Hebridean Crofter (named after the male of the species, with his distinctive blue overalls) staking out his territory by means of posts fashioned out of wood and metal supporting a mesh woven out of fine wire. Within this enclosure the Greater Blue will during the course of the summer gather up a store of food for winter.