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 Mingarry Blodge
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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...
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A New Website m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:57 Post Date12 April, 2015 Google have recently announced that they are making changes to their indexing system encouraging mobile friendly sites. As we're naturally...
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Wings of an emperor m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:49 Post Date26 April, 2015 Last May we found the wings of an emperor moth under a bat roost in one of our out buildings. Just the wings remained,...
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Bombus pratorum m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:46 Post Date29 April, 2015 This week has been a little chilly with the polar plume bringing a brief taste of winter back to Moidart. Snow on the top of Ben Resipole...
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Our Lady of The Angels m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:41 Post Date22 May, 2015 Mingarry Lodges are situated in the former grounds of Our Lady of The Angels Catholic Church, being separated off when The Church sold off...
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Bird Cam TV m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:36 Post Date21 June, 2015 One of the many joys of a holiday at Mingarry Lodges is the opportunity for close encounters with birds and other wildlife. A variety of...
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On The Wing m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:28 Post Date6 July, 2015 June and July are great months for butterfly watching and dragonfly stalking, and this year is no exception even after a slow start with the cool...
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High Mingarry Wildlife m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:17 Post Date16 July, 2015 Early July is a great time for botanising and wildlife spotting and we have been taking advantage of some spare time this week to visit...
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A trip to see the puffins m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 14:00 Post Date25 July, 2015 Earlier this month we headed off on a boat trip to see the puffins on The Treshnish Isles. This is a wonderful day...
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A minor deer diversion m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 13:55 Post Date17 November, 2015 We've driven over Rannoch Moor between Glencoe and Tyndrum so many times. Always a spectacular drive but sometimes daunting in...
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Summer Days on The Beach m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 13:42 Post Date1 January, 2016 As the days lengthen our thoughts turn to Spring and Summer and the walks to some of our favourite beaches in Ardnamurchan, Moidart...
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On the trail of the crested tit m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 13:35 Post Date3 April, 2016 Guests occasionally ask us whether we get crested tits in Mingarry. Unfortunately not, though they were rumoured to have been...
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A Day Trip to The Isle of Rum m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 13:19 Post Date21 April, 2016 The Isle of Rum is a popular day trip with guests at Mingarry Lodges. Not only a great wildlife destination but also an...
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Mothing on Mull m78gay69 Sat, 01/11/2025 - 13:07 Post Date15 June, 2016 Many of our guests take a day trip to The Isle of Mull or combine their holiday at Mingarry Lodges with an additional week on Mull taking...
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2016 - A Wildlife Year m78gay69 Mon, 01/06/2025 - 16:46 Post Date31 December, 2016 Whilst there is plenty of wildlife around Mingarry Lodges, we decided to head out on the road during 2016 to explore slightly further...
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Highland Biodiversity m78gay69 Mon, 01/06/2025 - 16:41 Post Date4 April, 2017 As you might of gathered by now, we're big fans of bumblebees, dragonflies, butterflies, moths, slow worms, frogs, red squirrels, wildcats...
