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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A Mid Argyll community is accusing council officials of evading their legal responsibilities following the shock news that the local library is to close.
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Argyll campaigners have met this week with the Scottish Government to demand it assesses the full economic impact of current A83 closures.
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It’s not every day the PS Waverley visits your home town.
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A landmark meeting between Ardrossan Harbour campaigners, CalMac, CMAL and Transport Scotland, has been described as “not encouraging” with the main negotiator for the Ardrossan Harbour buyout, CMAL CEO Kevin Hobbs, revealing that “A resolution should not be expected soon”.
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What’s the Gaelic name for a prickly pear fruit? A dictionary of lost Gaelic words, plus many other projects like local Mòds, get a boost from Holyrood
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Campbeltown Picture House’s future is secure for the next three years, thanks to a sponsorship deal with fish farming company MOWI.
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A talented group of young filmmakers from Arrochar have triumphed in a national competition.
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A motorcyclist who died following a crash on the A819 has been named by police as 48-year-old Julien Marchand.
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Sheriff Euan Cameron said he had to take into account the young age of a man when he committed a crime back in the summer of 2019.
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A fallen tree on the Bealach-an-Righ is reported to have been cleared.
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Oban Sea Cadets went on parade when the Royal Navy visited at the weekend with a mine hunting vessel.
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The bespoke aquarium would have been too expensive in the current financial climate.
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The latest Mid Argyll police files.
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Kintyre Coastal Network is offering a chance for the community to come together to help keep our shores clean.
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A Campbeltown woman had been told not to contact another woman, but went ahead and telephoned her at 3am one morning.
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The situation has got so bad that the new toilets in the West End Car Park, which are costing in the ascendancy of £150K, may not be able to open to the public.
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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I came across a post about galls in elder flowers caused by the midge Plachochela nigripes. I may or may not have found that (what looks like a gall, but no larvae found), but what fell out of the flowers was a Thrips. Thinking that I had little chance of getting any further than that, I...
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Flushed with success over Cydia ulicetana (Common Gorse Moth), yesterday I tackled some gorse about 500 m from home. I still didn’t find that micromoth, but I did find Coleophora albicosta (Gorse Case-bearer) for which there are only two previous records in the vice-county:...
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Some folks from Tennessee Tech University have been surveying parts of Raasay in connection with our Rhododendron reduction programme. As I was involved in helping out with plant identification, I was invited to join them in a circumnavigation of Raasay in a RIB from Raasay House. This was a great...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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The exclusive collaboration with ScotlandShop will represent one in five people living with long-term conditions and celebrate the charity’s proud Scottish heritage. This Stroke Awareness Month, Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland is delighted to announce an exclusive collaboration with...
