Wildlife Diary 23rd October
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With all the excitement about our young Osprey Blue YZ completing her first migration successfully, we’ve been forgetting somewhat to keep you up to date with what else is happening …
Reserve Sightings
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Despite the past weeks (predominantly) awful weather, there have still been plenty of good sightings here at Montrose Basin. Although becoming anything but a rare sight here at the Visitor Centre, …
News Update: She’s Made it! 21st October
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The latest news from our young satellite tracked osprey Blue YZ has just come in- and she has made it to the African coast safely! After her mammoth migration she …
The body language of trees
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After last week, I will never look at a tree the same way again! I went on a training course all about looking at the body language of trees which …
Pink-footed geese count continued…
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With the pink-footed geese count back up to the 40,000 mark it seems likely that we’re getting a steady stream of migrants this year, with them only stopping over for …
Osprey Satellite Tracking Update: 19th October
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Our young Osprey Blue YZ is still in Guinea ( as of yesterday) , but is now within 75km of the coast, to the south of the town of Boke …
Lovely lichens
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A few weeks ago a couple of us residential volunteers went to a fantastic lichen workshop run by Viv Lisewski-Hobson held at the TCV office in Stirling, and since then …
Osprey Diary 18th October
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As our young Osprey Blue YZ nears the end of her mammoth first migration, it seems like a good time to look back on her achievement so far. Whilst it …
Wader varieties at Montrose Basin – part 3.
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This week we’ll be looking at the last of the waders you’re most likely to see at Montrose (of course there are more, but they’re just not as common). This …
Satellite Tracking Update 17th October
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The news of our young osprey Blue YZ just gets better and better. The latest satellite data up to last night shows her now in Guinea only 165 km from …