Joe Gibbs tells a tale of roadkill, sporrans and the protected species who can circumvent an electric fence as stealthily as a cat burglar.
The otter population on our local river, the Beauly, seems to be getting healthier by the year. Fish heads appear regularly on the riverbank — not, perhaps, such a welcome sight to fishermen in these days of salmon famine — and, for the first time I can remember, two otters have been found dead on the road at the bottom of our…