Wildlife 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.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Wild Lochaber Photo Blog
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This magnificent male bullfinch pops into our garden every year around Springtime to feast upon our apple trees. We don’t tend to see them later in the year in our garden as they are shy little fellas and there’s so much wild country for them in the local area. We took this photo...
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Engrailed – what a great name for a moth. Ectropis bistortata. Common in gardens, woodlands and bushy places according to UK Moths, and so named because of similarity with the hammered metal like appearance of the ancient grail. Here spotted Wild About Lochaber on the 16th April 2014...
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Rock pipit (Anthus petrosus) on a rusty barbed wire fence behind Bay MacNeil on The Ardnamurchan Peninsula in The West Highlands of Scotland (29 March 2014). Earlier seen more typically foraging in the rocks and boulders at the top of the beach. Not so often photographed on fences so we thought...
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Our Lady of the Angels in Mingarry, Moidart, emergent and triumphant through the trees. A sight not seen for some time. The rhododendrons have recently been cleared by a dedicated group of volunteers to reveal this charming chapel.
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Earlier this year a couple of common gulls decided to build a nest and raise a family on an old boat moored to the pier on Loch Shiel at Acharacle. It seemed such a silly place to nest. Early days in late May, so full of optimisim… Three lovely eggs The happy event around the 11th June sees the...
