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Last Update: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 - 20:58
This sort of weather is not very conducive to field work.
However, some things are afoot. Through the Skye Naturalists’ Network on Facebook and with the help of Skye Gardening Society, I...
At Nigel’s suggestion I went and had a look at young leaves of Leucanthemum vulgare (Oxeye Daisy) and successfully completed my mission by finding the larva of the micro-moth Bucculatrix...
Someone has planted two groups of three Monkey-puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana) on the lower slopes of Temptation Hill on Raasay. (There could be more.) This seems slightly strange to me, but...
A little over one hundred years ago a poor seam of iron ore on Raasay was mined for strategic purposes. A splendid book about the mine was published in 1990 and subsequently updated:
There was...
This little rove beetle was on the outside of the house. It is Tachinus subterraneus (thanks Bruce and Stephen M) and amazingly not recorded by Richard Moore during his years of beetle recording on...
We have had some of the lowest tides of the year in the past few days, exposing the kelp beds in the bay by the house. Monday was the perfect day for exploring this habitat – the lowest tide of...
There is a lone curlew on the shore. I think there was just one this time last year – perhaps the same individual. Recently, there have been a flock of Purple Sandpipers, Turnstones and a pair...
The weather and lockdown have limited activity considerably, but I have managed a few things such as second records for Raasay for Cupressus lawsoniana (Lawson’s Cypress) and Olearia macrodonta...
A report on botanical activities in vice-county 104 during July-Dec 2020 is here.
Meanwhile, I am isolating at home with only the white-tailed eagles, otters, sparrowhawks etc. to watch….
James Merryweather posts videos on YouTube under the AuchtertyreAcademy imprint that may be of interest e.g.
BLUEBELL deconstructing the English Jacinth. Part 1: IdentityBLUEBELL deconstructing...
