Wild Lochaber Blogs
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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.
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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A moth trap a couple of nights ago produced 70 moths including 16 micro-moths. I added three macro-moths and five new micro-moths to my West Suisnish list, though nothing new at the vice-county level. My home list now stands at 256 species. Coronet Peacock Moth Sallow Kitten New Macro-...
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A small group of us were taken to Canna by boat from Skye last week. Paul, our skipper, kindly gave of his time and requested only a donation towards RNLI. We had an excellent cruise in a very calm sea and saw porpoises and bottle-nosed dolphins. Seabird numbers seemed down, no doubt partly the...
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Yesterday we had some rain, the first for over a month apart from a day or two with brief light mist. The results are obvious out in the field: Despite that, I have found what seems to be Iris setosa (Bristle-pointed Iris) growing with the locally common Iris pseudacorus (Yellow...
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My website at http://www.users.waitrose.com/~suisnish/ including The Flora or Raasay & Rona http://www.users.waitrose.com/~suisnish/flora_of_raasay__rona.html will disappear on 23rd June as the entire waitrose.com domain is disappearing. I plan to tidy it up and republish it under the aegis of...
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Marco has found a thriving colony of the Nationally Scarce Sedum villosum (Hairy Stonecrop) on Eigg. This is a first for VC104, ignoring a doubtful, old, undated, anonymous record from Canna where I don’t think there is any suitable habitat. Sedum villosum (Hairy Stonecrop) on Eigg...
Simon Willis
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Because I run a YouTube channel with a moderate number of subscribers (currently around 30k) I occasionally get offered items to 'test'. That word is often code for "we'll send you some free swag if you make a video about it and post it on your channel". Trouble is, I take...
The Adventures of Algy
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It was a damp, dark and dismal sort of day, and Algy had that... (Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 16:53)It was a damp, dark and dismal sort of day, and Algy had that inevitable “HOW long did you say it was till spring?” October Tuesday feeling… When he could see the sky at all it was a uniform pale grey from edge to edge, but that was only when it was not obscured by a thick blanket of fine Scotch...
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Sunday morning started out to be cool and damp, and became a great deal cooler and damper when the wild west wind swept mist and rain in from the mighty Atlantic ocean, which was only a bird’s hop away…But Algy was not daunted. The one thing he had particularly missed during his adventures in the...
The Rum Ranger Diaries
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12 Days of Christmas Wild Day 4: 28 Dec: Looking up: Wind-sculpted clouds. As a photographer, you always wish for interesting skies, and today’s were stunning! I see a vague whale shape in this sky, and it reminded me of a sci-fi short story I read years ago: whales had been transported along...
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#zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Gx-y5nd2Q/?igshid=12bl9kueiyp97
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#cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GzZf-nWrT/?igshid=12k0izlh7sndn
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Alarmingly more cattle gathered on the ridge in a very short space of time! #cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #howmanycows #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6G0CLFnVI8/?igshid=1426ssicrgq8x
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Another angle of the huge whale skull #beachlife #seashore #whaleskull #whalebone #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6G1GOSHxVg/?igshid=ycmklgh24l6w
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#zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore... (Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 20:09)#zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Gx-y5nd2Q/?igshid=12w0ynnt6yxgc
