Common Scoter
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A true sea duck, most at home far offshore and easiest to spot when sea watching, the Common Scoter is an unusual visitor here at Montrose Basin. However, for the …
Fantastic Fungi
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As summer is steadily drawing to a close and the first signs of Autumn start to show themselves around the reserve, walking around the reserve is made all the more …
Wildlife Diary Saturday 31st August: Sunshine and Gales!
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Perthshire has been delightful today with blue skies & bright sunshine. Blue YZ has been well provided for by our male osprey with a pike at 12.30hrs & a …
Wildlife Diary Friday 30th August: Preparing for migration
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Today has been great for observing migrating ospreys with four males & one juvenile spotted. Our male osprey brought a brown trout to the nest just before 10.00hrs which Blue …
Osprey Diary Thurs 29th August
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Not a lot of action on the osprey nest today – in fact we spent most of the morning watching the flies on a rather unsavoury left over fish tail …
Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo)
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Large, predominantly black in colour (at least from afar), and with a distinctive spread winged stance, cormorants are one of the most conspicuous birds both at the Basin and along …
Osprey Diary Wednesday 28th August
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Apart from a fish delivery at ten to seven this morning, not much happened on the nest until half past 11, when both ospreys returned to the nest. The male …
Osprey Diary Tues 27th August
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Hello folks, Emma the ranger here again, saying a big thankyou to the rest of the Loch of the Lowes team for keeping the blog updated with wildlife news whilst …
Wildlife Diary Monday 26th August
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Not too much to report on the Osprey front, both dad and our female chick are still here. Blue YZ took another step towards independence today when an intruder Osprey appeared. …
Amazing Archaeology
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It’s not just fantastic wildlife that can be found here on the reserve, we also have a range of historical buildings, from the Hall of Mirrors up by the surge …