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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Community to explore buyout of rewilding estate.
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A man has been arrested after a dog was mauled and killed in Spean Bridge.
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Campbeltown Lifeboat Station was the 165th RNLI visit on 81-year-old Derek Adams’ charity trek around Britain.
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A scheme that has awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to projects across Argyll and Bute is set to benefit Tarbert’s footballers, as well as Islay’s swimming pool users and the island’s youngest children.
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The supposed cover-up was not what it seemed.
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The Granite City will remain the home of British energy despite push for Inverness to take the mantle.
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Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL), the company that operates Campbeltown Airport, has won an award for its use of an artificial intelligence (AI) video generation software.
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Funding for the the interpretation boards on a trail to the original Dalmally at Barr a Chaistelain came from Dalmally Community Company, Green Power and National Lottery.
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A motorcylist has been charged with dangerous driving after allegedly causing a road accident on the A85 near Arinabea Cottage.
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A crackdown by the Highland and Islands Road Policing Team saw a number of people charged with speeding, careless driving, use of a mobile phone and other traffic offences.
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A fraud involving alleged bogus workmen is among the incidents being investigated this week by police.
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Lochgilphead’s Christmas Lights Committee have been pounding the streets asking local businesses for help to boost the town’s Christmas lights display.
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Renamed the Innes MacCol, after the last descendant of the area’s clan, the former Scottish Sea Farms’ workboat boat has been donated to the community-led MaCCOLL conservation group.
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Fifty dogs under the control of some of Scotland’s top handlers were put to the test at the annual Skipness and District Sheepdog Trial.
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Two witnesses who respectively failed to turn up to Campbeltown Sheriff Court to give evidence in scheduled trials found themselves in the dock at the court’s September sitting.
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The popular CalMac apprenticeship programme is back and and amongst the new cohort of sea-farers are apprentices from Oban, Barra, and Islay.
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There were games galore for people young and old at the annual Clachan Smallholders Gathering.
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Oban u3a’s open morning on September 10 at the Corran Halls was a great opportunity to welcome new members, under u3a’s maxim ’Learn, Laugh, Live’.
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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I have been away but there are things to report: Skye Botany Group went to Ord in search of uncommon plants not recorded in the 10 km square NG61 since before 2000: Atriplex praecox (Early Orache), Epipactis helleborine (Broad-leaved Helleborine) and Orobanche alba (Thyme Broomrape). There was...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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In my earlier blogs, I mentioned that I would try to explain how my wife Lynne and I go about photographing particular wildlife species when we are on holiday. This article looks at our techniques for capturing the Pine Marten, one of the key species that keeps drawing us back to Ardtornish year...
