West Coast Islands Blogs
Blogs (web logs) provide an ideal opportunity to explore the traditions, culture and wildlife of Wild Lochaber. We have put together a collection of local blogs and provide the titles and text snippets to 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.
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Treshnish Farm
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Happy New Year! Another year begins at Treshnish. Christmas is past and the decorations are back in the attic (bar the one or two I always forget). Last night we said goodbye to the old year and greeted the new one. Moon, stars and fireworks in Tobermory. December...
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December has been a mixed month of weather. Intense cold with snow and ice, and some dramatic storms. Thank goodness for a warm fireside. Glen Forsa skyline Loch na KealLoch na KealInch KennethFrom Haunn, to RumFrom the Black Park to Rum and the CuillinsTreshnish HeadClouds...
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That tree. We have had the use of the fields at Ensay this year. We have had hoggs and wedder lambs there. Getting them into the fank up on the hill beside the farmhouse requires the attention of ideally 3 people. Farmer and DG gathered the field and brought them down the road,...
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BrownieView from the Sitheans into Calgary Bay Stormy October skies and then a wonderful October sunset Bringing in the HerdwicksNew Blackface tups Henhouse with Caliach Point and Rum in the distance Sunset over Rum Moving the cowsWalter and NyjeSunset over the...
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Hen house Late flowering Tormentil. Brambles Sorting the cast ewes for sale Herdwick stripes Late flowering Centuary Damp Calgary BeachFergus, our new Herdwick tupHe has got such a wonderful face. We bought him in late August from James Rebanks in Cumbria. ...
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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Joanna has sent some additional Skye records from the summer, which include two new vice-county records: Echinops bannaticus (Blue Globe-thistle) in Broadford and Phedimus (Sedum) kamtschaticus (Kamchatka Stonecrop) at Lonmore. Phedimus (Sedum) kamtschaticus (Kamchatka Stonecrop) I have the...
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Neil spotted some galls on the box hedges in Raasay House Walled Garden so I went to have a look. Galls on Box (Buxus sempervirens) There seems little doubt that these small cabbage-like galls are caused by the psyllid Psylla buxi, but an official record can wait until we can actually...
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Joanna, who has recently been appointed as Joint BSBI Vice-county Recorder for VC104, has been busy with some difficult plants on Skye. She has found more Polypodium x mantoniae (Manton’s Polypody, the hybrid between P. interjectum and P. vulgare) near Coral Beach, north of Dunvegan Polypodium x...
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I was away for most of September, but towards the end of the month Skye Botany Group went to Drinan in the hope of re-finding Sorbus rupicola (Rock Whitebeam), last recorded there in 1987. We failed on that, but there is plenty more difficult rocky coastline to explore. The MacAlister Tomb is...
Marc Calhoun
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I have an article in the current Scottish Islands Explorer Magazine about Eilean Righ, the King's Isle of Loch Craignish. It was once part of a ritual landscape; just five miles away stands the hill of Dunadd, where the early kings of Dalriada were inaugurated; and two miles to the east is...
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I have an article in the latest issue of Scottish Islands Explorer about a walk to Hairteabhaigh, a remote ghost village on a far corner of South Uist. The journey was a six-mile loop walk from South Glendale that also passed the site of the schoolhouse of Glaic Ruairidh, immortalized...
wondering wanderers
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I think the most appropriate first proper catch up post is a sad but celebratory one. In late August, we said goodbye to the fifth member of the Wondering Wanderers team – Bonnie the dog. Bonnie joined our family at a pivotal moment in our story – we collected her as a tiny 12 week...
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I have a few blogs littering the internet covering various periods of my life or telling stories about specific issues. There is one about money and debt, a couple about Home Education, an early self sufficiency blog which in many ways was the forerunner to our WWOOFing adventure and subsequent Rum...
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
