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Very nice clue, Mr. Fernfinder. Thanks to the dashing skyewalker (he did claim to be) for officiating and to ginge, stevea, and dorrien for the much-appreciated mentions.

Congratulations Chrise finda of jah fern
Cheers Sw a toughie

Nice chrise, always appreciated receiving the nod from your good self aristo's and thanks to chrise & stevea for the mentions, cheers skyewalker.

Hi pigale
There are about 85 species in Britain, plus hybrids. We've seen all the species, but not all the hybrids.
However there are far more world-wide. She has seen and can identify hundreds; I can identify maybe a dozen!

Chris @41. The phenomenon is very rarely seen as far south as we are, just north of Glasgow. I've only ever seen it once. (Or maybe it's just the light pollution).

I suspect, sw, that Chris thought as I once did, that Skye referred to the place and not your dog. Can the Northern Lights be seen more often from Skye ?
I went on a Hurtigruten vogage once just to see them, and on just one night they appeared. I thought my hot tub on an open deck at minus 14 (including wind chill) was just as memorable!

I did know that Skye was a dog, rosalind, but I also remembered that SW lived in Scotland.

Near Glasgow, I believe.

Skye is on a similar latitude to Aberdeen and there is a song "The Northern Lights Of Old Aberdeen" so I imagine they probably do see it reasonably often.

This is a good site for getting anagrams

https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=auroraborealis&t=500&a=n