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You're listening to Out of Doors from BBC Radio Scotland.

I turned back to the sea cliffs, pointed my suddenly inferior glasses a little higher than I'd been looking before, near the founder.

She hefted high and low the most extensive acreage of wings anyone ever saw along that shore.

Wings like hung sheets of dark silk, wings like furrowed fields. With these she rose steeply from the sea cliff shadows into oceanic

sunlight and at once she paled. For a sea eagle is dark only in dark shadow or in silhouette. And

her upper wings in her head especially are often mottled like tan and pale grey that can look

almost white in the right light. And then her tail shines like snowlight,

and her beak is the colour of daffodils for all that it's as lethal as a bushman's machete.

The voice there are Jim Crumley,

one of Scotland's best-known nature writers

and certainly one of Scotland's most widely read nature writers.

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you in McElraith.

Yeah, for the next half an hour or so,

we'll chat to Jim about what inspires him here,

some of the stories about the incredible wildlife scenes he's seen.

Have you got an almost photographic mind?

Because that passage probably took about 10 times longer to read than the incident took place.

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