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Iona Macduff
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Creative Nonfiction PhD at University of East Anglia, Norwich
Scotland and Nepal
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Every time I tried to write about Eigg, I wrote about John the Bird. This piece gets at why: what one person can do if they truly know and love a place. You can read it in Paperboats Zine Issue 5, paperboats.org/2025/04/09/t... along with some other beautiful pieces 🌍💚 @paperboatswriters.bsky.social
Looking from a height over green fields, then the white sands of Laig Bay and the blue sea sound between Eigg and the island of Rum, whose rocky peaks have puffy clouds sitting on top. A white-haired man, John the Bird, stands with his back to us, poring over a moth-identification book in front of a large window, outside of which is a dense green bush. On the left, a moth identification book is open showing a series of moths. On the right, a notepad records the day's moths that were captured. mesmerising patterns of black and white sand in the foreground leading up to a thin pale strip of sea and then the island of Rum looking like a silhouette in the background.
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM