Wild Lochaber Blogs
The latest bleats from the sheep on the street...
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
We have put together a collection of Lochaber blogs to highlight the traditions, culture and wildlife in the various regions, including the West Coast Islands.
We show entries from the last 100 days, organised by region, topic and blog. The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
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The popular employee is raising money for charity by taking on epic running challenge.
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In a hilarious mix up, airport scanners mistook the star’s black pudding for an explosive.
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Offender was jailed on Friday after a campaign of abuse that lasted for five decades.
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Inveraray Community Council has been alerted by BEAR Scotland, trunk road contractors for Transport Scotland, that work to repair the seawall on the A83 north of Inveraray will start at the end of this month.
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The new year started with a bang on the Isle of Gigha, with the island’s rangers called out to rescue a stranded dolphin on January 4.
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Oban Gaelic Choir has presented cheques to four charities with the proceeds from a Christmas concert that it performed along with other festive voices
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The Glen Sannox has officially entered service with CalMac this morning - after completing its first voyage with passengers a day early.
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A good number of volunteers turned up for the latest session at Tarbert Castle although the very cold weather made it shorter than usual.
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A Kintyre and the Islands councillor has strongly condemned recent reports of the illegal release of Eurasian lynx in the Scottish Highlands.
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A proposal to remove Inverawe Smokehouse from The Companies Register has been suspended
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The condition of a “precarious” wall near a construction site on Islay has sparked safety concerns.
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A former soldier who preyed on four victims has been sentenced today.
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Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell have "decided to end" their marriage.
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The theme of the Rotary Club of Oban’s latest Young Environmentalist Competition is ’Wonderful Water’.
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The ladies of Southend SWI enjoyed a good yarn with knitwear designer Kate Davies at their latest meeting.
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Mingarry Wildcats m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 15:16 Post Date26 November, 2012 Are there wildcats in Mingarry? Earlier this week we attended an excellent Lochaber Natural History Society talk by Adrian Davis on...
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Chequered Skipper seen in Mingarry m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 15:13 Post Date27 June, 2013 The chequered skipper butterfly has it's UK stronghold around Lochaber and North Argyll, being extinct from England and Wales...
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The Flight of The Siskin m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 15:09 Post Date7 August, 2013 This Spring we saw the usual influx of siskins to our bird feeders in Mingarry. They seem particulary keen on nyger seed,...
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Mingarry Butterflies m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 15:03 Post Date15 August, 2013 2013 has been a good year for butterflies in Mingarry. There are 29 species of butterflies found in the Highlands, out of the 59 or...
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Bats in the dining room, toads in the sitting room... m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 15:00 Post Date7 August, 2014 It's not every morning that you look up from the breakfast table to see a bat hanging from the dining room...
