Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
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Last Update: Sunday, July 23, 2017 - 13:19
This week I was interviewed by Carole Doyle a researcher from the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.James Hutton Institute find out more Carole was interviewing Crofters as part of a...
John Alec cleaning up the ewesHere in the W. Highlands heat and humidity peak in mid July, some sheep have dirty wool contaminated by dung and urine. Conditions are perfect for fly strike. Blow flies...
I thought that after days of rain we might see a hunting osprey yesterday, we didn't. But we did see evidence that a long lost ( since medieval times) keystone species is back. We saw real, fresh...
Caledonia pinewood ecosystemAfter the last ice age 7 - 8,000 years ago a great woodland extended across northern Scotland, from the rain forest oak woods of the western shores to the pinewoods...
Wildlife programmes on TV and relatively cheap high quality digital cameras might encourage you to take up wildlife photography but beware. You need a licence photograph certain species...
The UK farm census figures for June 2015 showed that the average yield of a dairy cow was 7,912 litres. If a cow produces 1.9 tonnes of milk a year it also produces roughly 1.9 tonnes of...
You may be wondering what canaries have to do with bovine tuberculosis, bear with me.The Canary is an online site devoted to investigative journalism and today it ran a story about an outbreak of bTB...
Our bird population is probably at it's peak about now. Hamsa is out from dawn to dusk looking for nests, filming and photographing. Buzzard five weeks old ?Yesterday he was filming a buzzard...
'The theme this year is "re-connect with nature" by sharing photos, creating activities and exploring our everyday world using inature. You are being encouraged to get out and have a nice time in the...
The Knoydart peninsula is usually described as the UK's last wilderness". It lies between Loch Hourn to the North and Loch Nevis to the South . Knoydart is only accessible by sea or on foot through...