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! Feeding sheep on cold winter's morningsFrosty ground and a dusting of snow on the hill behind Ensay New feed buckets One each Waiting.. waiting..Hungry hens on ground covered with hail Breakfast view, January 8thThe Aurora tree in the morning ...
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I am writing this in late December, the ground is saturated from a lot of rain, and I had forgotten until I looked through the photographs I had made in November that we actually had some good weather! So much so, there were several days I was able to fly my drone.The annual Scottish...
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After lamb sales, it is time to think about tups. Have we got enough? We have 3 different flocks of sheep - and they each need new blood every now and then. We bought a Suffolk tup from Lettermore on the side of Loch Frisa, a handsome Herdwick from James Rebanks in Cumbria but we...
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After a pretty wet summer September has given us some warmth and lovely dry days. September is a busy month on the farm. Long days in the fank sorting lambs in preparation for the weekly or fortnightly trips to market in Oban. Early starts loading lambs into the livestock trailer...
Marc Calhoun
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After a night at anchor off Hallaig, we set a course south to transit under the Skye Bridge. That gave me a brief look at two historic sites. To port was the Eilean Ban lighthouse and cottages, made famous by Gavin Maxwell. To starboard was a lesser-known historic site, the Chain Stone of Skye....
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The September 2024 cruise on Hjalmar Bjorge was different than any I’d done before. Due to cancellations, there were only two guests, which made my job as a guide much easier. What made it not so easy was the weather. Force 8 gales were streaming off the Atlantic and had blown away my plans for a...
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I have not posted in a month. It's been a sad month. One of my four brothers-in-law passed unexpectedly, and then a few weeks later my mother-in-law passed. The election results on top of that have made for a depressing period. But there is no better way to forget about bad times than to talk...
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Over three weeks in September, I was fortunate to visit ten islands. The weather at the beginning and end of those weeks was brilliant sunshine. The weather in the middle was less brilliant: lashing gale-force winds laced with cold, Arctic air. That meant my planned itinerary for a ten-day cruise...
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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Joanna has heard back from several referees to whom she had sent specimens: Rumex x dufftii (R. obtusifolius x sanguineus) from Strolllamus has been confirmed. This is only the third record for VC104. Rumex x dufftii Images J. Walmisley Two excellent Hieracium records were H....
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Neil has re-found Osmunda regalis (Royal Fern) in NG42, the first record there since 1992, plus Vicia sylvatica (Wood Vetch) and Viburnum opulus (Guelder-rose) in NG41, the first records there since 1968. Vicia sylvatica Image N Roberts Viburnum opulus Image N Roberts When Mark was...
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To finish off the Skye Botany Group season Joanna arranged two loch visits. Firstly, we went to Loch Cleap in the north of Skye to try and re-find Elatine hexandra (Six-stamened Waterwort), last seen there in 1974, and to re-visit a Sparganium that I had put down as S. emersum (Unbranched Bur-reed...
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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...
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
