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Claish Moss

  • Claish Moss
  • The old lichen covered sign for The Claish Moss (former)  NNR
  • White-faced darter dragonfly near Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss viewed from the A861 near Dalilea
  • The start of a walk to Claish Moss off the A861 near Acharacle
  • A small side track leading to Claish Moss
  • A forest ride leading to Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss - watch out for the cleggs in Summer
  • A gateway to Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss
  • The old NNR sign at Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss
  • Claish Moss - boogy pools and purple moor grass
  • Sundew  - watch out for the carnivorous plants
  • Chequered skipper butterfly seen on the path to Claish Moss
  • Northern emerald dragonfly
  • Four spotted chaser
  • Golden-ringed dragonfly
  • Common blue damselfy
  • Large red damselfly
  • White-faced darter dragonfly
  • Common Hawker dragonfly
  • Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterfly
  • Four spotted chaser dragonfly

Details

Claish Moss, a former National Nature Reserve, is one of Scotland’s finest and unusual raised bogs. The site is dominated by large hummocks of the woolly hair moss (Racomitrium lanuginos) and supports fourteen different species of Sphagnum, cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix) and bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), as well as the insectivorous sundews and butterworts. It is also a good place to see some of the rarer dragonflies, including the azure hawker, northern emerald and white-faced darter, as well as butterflies and moths characteristic of upland peatland, including chequered skipper, Scotch Argus, green hairstreak, small pearl bordered fritillary and argent and sable. Greenshank, curlew and dunlin breed on the site. Black-throated divers are found on Loch Shiel, and hen harriers soar over the hilly ground to the south.

The 'eccentric' mires of Claish and the adjacent Kentra Moss also support a wintering flock of Greenland White-fronted Geese.

Location

Links to useful information

  • SNH Claish Moss Nature Reserve information
  • Claish Moss SSSI information on Sitelink
  • Claish Moss and Kentra Moss SAC information on Sitelink
  • JNCC
  • Claish Moss Plantation Walk

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