30 Years of Volunteering
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Joanna Peaker is the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Visitor Centre Site Manager at Montrose Basin. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Montrose Basin Visitor Centre, having first opened to …
Reflections on Volunteering at Montrose Basin
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Learning from Life As part of the Learning from Life module at the University of Dundee, I had the opportunity to undertake a six-week volunteering placement at Montrose Basin Visitor …
Unexpected Geese
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Montrose Basin attracts tens of thousands of pink-footed geese every year, with numbers sometimes peaking at over 80,000 in Autumn. Now that we’re into the Winter season, many of these …
Kingfisher Fights & FAQ
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We’re incredibly lucky at Montrose Basin to be able to see kingfishers on a daily basis outside of their breeding season. A healthy population of kingfishers breed up the River …
My summer at Montrose
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Every year, a number of students volunteer with the Scottish Wildlife Trust during the summer, often as part of their studies, to get practical experience to help their future career. …
Montrose Basin’s Mosquito Monitoring Squad
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If you have visited Montrose Basin Visitor Centre recently, you may have spotted a strange contraption in the tree, or one of our members of staff bending over a black …
Reedbed restoration at Montrose Basin Wildlife Reserve
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Angus Council’s Direct Award of the Nature Restoration Fund has supported the restoration of reedbed habitat at Montrose Basin Wildlife Reserve which is designated as a Local Nature Reserve (LNR). …
An Updated Kingfisher Diet Analysis
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At the beginning of this year, we were excited to share some interesting results we had gotten from the dissection of a kingfisher pellet found at Montrose Basin. You can …
What Is A Kingfisher’s Diet? – a kingfisher pellet analysis
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Many people will be familiar with owl pellets; grey-brown plum sized masses of fur, feathers and other indigestible material. You may have even had to dissect a few in biology …
Montrose Basin’s Pink-footed Geese of 2023
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Now that we’re trying our best to keep warm in the winter months, we thought this would be the perfect time to reflect on this year’s pink-footed goose season. Montrose …