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.
The Oban Times
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The win in the regional section means a place in the RBLS Best Kept War Memorial 2023 National finals. The post Fort William memorial cleans up in regional competition appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Paul Brian, who served as Head Teacher at Lochaber High School in the 1990s, spoke to Lochaber Rotary about his role in the 1968 expedition to ascend the previously unclimbed Hindu Kush in Afghanistan. The post Former Lochaber High School head teacher remembers the Hindu Kush appeared first on The...
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Father Danny Convery of the Roman Catholic Parish of Roy Bridge gave the tunnels at the Coire Glas hydro scheme a blessing in the name of Saint Barbara, a tradition amongst miners worldwide. The post Coire Glas tunnels receives Saint Barbara blessing appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Retrofitting work costing £540,000 has been undertaken on eighteen Portree homes at Shulishader Beag in order to make them more energy efficient. The post Eighteen Portree homes retrofitted appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Event organisers and relevant agencies have outlined the parking and traffic plan for the UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Championships, which will take place at Nevis Range August 3-5. The post Parking and traffic plans outlined for Mountain Bike World Championships at Nevis Range appeared first...
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Youngsters from Mull will be among hundreds of other youth musicians performing at a free event in Princes Street Gardens on Saturday August 5 at the start of this year's Edinburgh International Festival The post Mull makes music at festival opening appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Cost-of-living crisis pushing business to insolvency The post WYLIE & BISSET: SUPPORTING OBAN BUSINESSES appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Nominations open for Highland and Islands business excellence awards (Friday, July 14, 2023 - 08:03)The Scottish Council for Development and Industry is accepting nominations for its Highlands and Islands Business Excellence Awards 2023, which will be held in September. The post Nominations open for Highland and Islands business excellence awards appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Experts say rural areas like the Highlands and Islands are struggling to recruit NHS consultants, piling more pressure on "overstretched" medical staff and care. The post Doctors raise concerns over lack of applications for vacant consultant posts appeared first on The Oban Times.
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The Scottish Government has proposed raising council tax by as much as 22.5 per cent for homes in higher bands The post Council tax rises of up to 22 per cent proposed appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Cakebread's Garden Centre wanted to thank people who have supported a small, independent business for so long The post Garden Centre shuts gate for good appeared first on The Oban Times.
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Even before a call for help went online, there was a queue of cars outside An Talla community hall with residents coming to the rescue, ready to give shelter to campers "at the drop of a hat." The post Good Samaritans hailed after rescuing stranded Tiree Music Festival goers appeared first on The...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Overview From 3-13 August 2023, the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships will be hosted in Glasgow and across Scotland. It will be the biggest cycling event ever, bringing together for the first time 13 existing UCI championships into one mega event. Scotland is the first country in the world...
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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When Simon was here in June he got some really good images of our Saxifraga cespitosa (Tufted Saxifrage) in flower, like this one: Saxifraga cespitosa on Skye Image: S Harrap First spotted in 2014, we still only have one site, on the Trotternish Ridge.
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Yesterday Skye Botany Group visited Dunvegan Woods to look at male ferns under the tutelage of local pteridologist James Merryweather who recently wrote Britain’s Ferns: A Field Guide to the Clubmosses, Quillworts, Horsetails and Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. We were particularly...
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Several recent items worth mentioning have escaped record here e.g. The striking yellow and black leafhopper Evacanthus interruptus near Glasnakille The tiny weevil Parethelcus pollinarius on nettles in the garden Mines on Chamaenerion angustifolium (Rosebay) caused by the micromoth...
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We have had several members of the family visiting recently and both young and old made interesting finds. On the shore near home we identified Anurida maritima, seashore springtail – a common enough species but never recorded on Raasay before. There were also some tiny crustaceans, probably...
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On our way back from Canna, I spotted a tree on the cliffs near Glasnakille on Skye. I was pretty sure that it was the Nationally Scarce Sorbus rupiciola (Rock Whitebeam) so yesterday I went to see. It is indeed a good specimen, though comletely unreachable. Sorbus rupicola at Glasnakille...
Highland Titles
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The Sovereign Realm of Americadia: Where Stars and Stripes Crown the Kingdom Kings, Queens, and States The United States has its fair share of historical landmarks and figures, but it has never...
Treshnish Farm
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Today we landed on Great Bernera, at Bosta beach. Then after lunch we landed on Little Bernera where I flew the drone. We moored at Meavaig tied up to the pontoons.
