Blog Entries from Treshnish Farm
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Last Update: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 14:44
The old schoolhouse in autumn. We have always made late cut silage in order to allow ground nesting birds to safely fledge their young and to let the wild flowers set seed. This year our silage is...
All the lambs are sold now bar a few stragglers who will go later in the autumn. The place looks quite empty without them.We managed to have a last picnic down by the Boathouse earlier in the...
This is White Ramping-fumitory. The only records of this wild flower on Mull are here at Treshnish.Prasad has nurtured and protected the tender plants since he first recorded it in May 2014. I...
I could fill a whole book with photographs of Cap who died, aged 14, on Wednesday 28th August. He was such a special dog, and Farmer says, the best working dog he has ever had. Cap came from a...
It was the most beautiful morning and the gatherers set off at 8am. Farmer texted me when they got to Port Haunn so I could go and fly the drone as they came up from the shore. I missed...
I flew over a croft at Langamull to record the results of several years of hard graft, preparing a growing area in the middle of a devastated patch of felled forest.The Heather is in full flower as...
Farmer and Daughter took some Herdwicks to the Salen Show. They brought home a few rosettes. Unfortunately I missed the judging so didn't get any photographs of them in the ring.
The good weather in early August has enabled me to fly the drone, and Farmer to continue the battle with the Bracken, which is a back breaking activity involving bouncing around on the quad bike with...
There are lots and lots of Sparrows at Treshnish, and they are a delight to watch. There are lots of fledglings around and still some chirping from nests in the eaves of the steading. ...
