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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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...
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As I hoped, Equisetum pratense (Shady Horsetail) is also present in the next tetrad south. It occurs to me that, despite its vernacular name, I never see this anywhere near shade. Equisetum pratense beside the Eynort River On the banks of the Eynort River, I also found three species that had...
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Yesterday, I took a wander in NG3828, which includes a stretch of the Eynort River and the eastern half of Cnoc Scarall. I had noticed that this tetrad (NG32Z) was a bit low on records of plant species and thought it deserved a better look. In fact, I added nearly forty taxa to the tetrad including...
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Eleanor has found Barbarea intermedia (Medium-flowered Winter-cress) at Cleadale on Eigg. This is the first record for any Barbarea on the island, though this species is known on Rum (and also on Skye and Raasay). Interestingly, she knows another plant that may be the same species near the ferry...
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My Carabus larva has pupated: Carabus pupa I await further developments… Also in the garden recently, I have seen Ctenicera cuprea and a Philonthus that is either P. politus or P. succicola, but it appears that dissection would be required to be sure which. Ctenicera cuprea and a...
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...
Ardtornish Estate and Gardens, Self catering holidays Scotland
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Press & Journal Article, May 2025 In the difficult years after the Second World War, a small band of determined politicians and engineers – led by Tom Johnston, then secretary of state for Scotland – conspired to go into some of the country’s most inhospitable places and build dams, tunnels and...
