Blog Entries from Treshnish Farm
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Last Update: Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 22:04
The Milk Clip took place over two days this year as RM was doing them on her own. There is quite a lot of preparation involved. Moving different groups of ewes and lambs into fields near the...
Walked on Calgary machair today. It is looking fantastic. Huge swathes of Lady's bedstraw and wild Thyme. Bees and tiny flitting Moths, incredible scent. Prasad was there too, and...
Lots of quite grown up Greylag goslings in Salen Bay. Very flighty! In the evening we went looking for Lesser twayblade on the Sitheans, we didn't think we had found one but when we...
We clambered into the damp wood. This Water avens greeted us, it was about 3 feet tall. Bird's nest orchid. It is not past its best, this is how it looks. It hasn't flowered...
The wild flowers that caught my attention today amongst all the others:Yellow pimpernelSweet woodruffEnchanter's nightshadeDog's mercuryBuckhorn plantainSea plantainCommon hogweedFairy flaxCorn...
Another good flower dog walk on the Point this afternoon and a bonus walk through the field beyond Haunn this evening. A relief after most of the day was spent doing the cleaning...
Treshnish escaped the worst of the thunder storms, thankfully, and it has been sunny most of the day in spite of the forecast. We had errands to do this morning which took us over the hill road...
Another amazing walk through the fields this evening. Interesting to walk through 4 different fields in one walk, it makes you appreciate the different diversity in each field.
We went looking for Bogbean today, whilst checking the sheep over at Crackaig. We walked home across the bog to Beinnanaraich. It was wonderful up there. Water forget me notOily bogI...
Chose to walk the dogs according to the weather forecast today, as it was to be wet and windy. In fact we had moments of sunshine and it was dry all the time we were out. The Lady's...
