Grey Granite found this beautiful sea buckthorn bush, clustered with berries growing in the hedge along Boothby Road. When she saw them yesterday the sun had just started to catch the upper branches, melting the snow and illuminating the berries so that they seemed to glow. According to Millken and Bridgewater writing in Flora Celtica, (Birlinn 2004) the berries are eaten by birds such as fieldfares however, whilst the roses and elders in the same section of hedge have been denuded of fruits, the buckthorn remains apparently untouched.
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