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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15th August 2023 - approximately 14,680 lambs sold.
Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles
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Similar to the Sonchus arvensis story, I spotted Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp-agrimony) on the roadside south of Sligachan. Again, this is almost exclusively coastal locally and this is a new hectad (10 km) record. Eupatorium cannabinum by the road Recently, Joanna found the glabrous form of...
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On Friday, Skye Botany Group set off southwards from Kilmarie hoping to re-find Sorbus rupicola (Rock Whitebeam) based on some old records. We scoured the cliffs from below but failed to find any. A long-dead trunk or two may explain our failure. However, we made some additions to the plant lists...
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A return to the Beinn na’ Leac area yesterday with Joanna allowed us to re-find my Saussurea alpina (Alpine Saw-wort) record from twenty years ago. At least, we found one rather sickly-looking plant on a ledge very close to, but not exactly at, my earlier grid reference. The last...
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
